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For example, in fragile X syndrome, a form of mental retardation, about 25% of patients are also autistic.

In the case of mycobacteria, there is some experimental evidence of cell growth retardation brought about by protein synthesis.

Other promising young Romans suffered a similar retardation at about the same time.

Approximately 70% of individuals with autistic disorder have some degree of mental retardation, and about half are nonverbal or have very impaired speech.

Eliot was utterly diligent about ensuring the book was historically accurate: her diaries report that, in preparation for writing, she gathered "particulars, first, about Lorenzo de'Medici's death; secondly, about the possible retardation of Easter; third, about Corpus Christi Day; fourthly, about Savonarola's preaching in the Quaresima of 1492".

But a lot of news articles and editorials about the case avoided using the terms "retarded" or "retardation".

At the moment, lawyers for both sides are slogging through the laborious jury-selection process for a capital case, a process requiring that hundreds of people be questioned, one at a time, about everything from their home life to their feelings about race, about capital punishment, about mental retardation.

But Alabama, like other states, does not rely solely on I.Q. in determinations about retardation in capital cases.

Latent inhibition refers to a retardation in learning about a stimulus that has been rendered familiar by non-reinforced preexposure, relative to a non-preexposed stimulus.

When the Supreme Court directed the states to bar executions for the retarded, it left them "the task of developing appropriate ways" to make a determination about retardation.

Mental retardation (MR) affects about 1 3% of the general population.