The phrase "physically retarded" is not considered to be proper English, and it is not to be used in most contexts.
The appropriate term is "physically disabled". For example: "Many people who are physically disabled face unique challenges when it comes to finding employment."
The wall above Ms. Assefa's desk at Unicef is covered with pictures of Afghan villagers with enormous goiters, and several cases of mentally and physically retarded people, including a stunted 10-year-old girl whom villagers called diwana, or the mad one, Ms. Assefa said.
Discovering shortly after his birth that her baby was mentally and physically retarded and couldn't hold his head up or smile, she soon realized he would never be able to play with traditional toys like Legos and building blocks or the trendy holiday items that most mothers pull off the shelves during this season of year.
He is blind, brain damaged and physically retarded.
Mentally and physically retarded subjects shown in a documentary film [IDD in Ethiopia 2005] produced by former Ethiopian Nutrition Institute and UNICEF depicts severity and wide range of IDD in Ethiopia.
Inside a toasty cabin at Wagon Road Camp, though, the voices of a score of youngsters, some physically handicapped, others mentally retarded, filled a large community room.
I'm not that scientifically inclined, but the guy was definitely retarded both physically and mentally.
"Just one hour from Kabul you find retarded people, both physically and mentally," she said.
I didn't care about the looks people gave me because I'd started pretending I was slightly retarded and therefore not physically and mentally able to give a toss about people's thoughts.
The device is a metal bar which a crew would manually swing in front of the thrust levers over the idle line, physically preventing the thrust levers from being retarded into the reverse position.
A perhaps more controversial example would be the operation by the state of public schools funded by general tax revenues that are formally open to all resident children but are physically accessible only to children who can walk normally or set at a level such that some severely retarded or otherwise cognitively impaired children can gain no benefit from the instruction that is provided.
