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noun
The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.
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Micro-Pine Level has 45 special education students -- with handicaps varying from speech impediments to retardation.
One couple recounts an ugly incident when their house was spray-painted with epithets referring to retardation.
It is the same couple who recount how their house was spray-painted with epithets referring to retardation, not a different one.
One child in five thousand is born with fragile X syndrome, with mental effects ranging from mild learning disabilities to retardation so profound that sufferers do not speak, and physical effects that include elongated faces, prominent jaws, big ears, and enlarged testes.
These phenomena lead to the terms corresponding to "retardation effects".
Heat treatment leads to retardation of the chain cooperative mobility.
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One boy had thigh amputation and was unable to receive prosthetic rehabilitation, owing to mental retardation.
Learned irrelevance (LIrr) refers to the retardation of classical conditioning following preexposure of the to-be-associated stimuli.
Our results indicate the need to recognize psychomotor retardation and to apply appropriate intervention to improve QOL.
There is no evidence linking it to mental retardation.
Two years ago Congress took out references to "mental retardation".
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