IDIOCY
\ˈɪdɪˌɒsi], \ˈɪdɪˌɒsi], \ˈɪ_d_ɪ__ˌɒ_s_i]\
Definitions of IDIOCY
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Subnormal intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period. This has multiple potential etiologies, including genetic defects and perinatal insults. Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores are commonly used to determine whether an individual is mentally retarded. IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline mentally retarded range. Scores below 67 are in the retarded range. (Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28)
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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See idiot.
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State of being an idiot; extreme imbecility, in which reason has been wholly undeveloped, or but partially developed.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Congenital weak-mindedness; a condition in which mental weakness exists from birth or the earliest years, the psychical development is arrested, and the intelligence is below the average commonly developed at a given age. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
