Retardation in a sentence

And even now, advocates for patients with disabilitiesthe guidance provided in some states, are unfair to people with severe mental retardation or those in a persistent vegetative state.

Q: Regarding jake brakes, they are designed for the retardation of vehicle speed when on a down grade.

First cousins are somewhat more likely than unrelated parents to have a child with a serious birth defect, mental retardation or genetic disease, but their increased risk is nowhere near as large as most people think, the scientists said.

Mental retardation and behavioral disturbances related to epilepsy: A review.

CRS is characterized by multiple defects, particularly affecting the eyes (glaucoma, cataract), ears (hearing loss), brain (microcephaly, mental retardation) and heart defects, many of which require costly therapy, surgeries and other expensive care.

A part of the answer was suggested independently in the 1860s by Delaunay and by William Ferrel : tidal retardation of Earth's rotation rate was lengthening the unit of time and causing a lunar acceleration that was only apparent.

Before his death, however, the retardation of light in denser media was demonstrated by the experiments of H. L. Fizeau and B. L. Foucault, which, with improvements in detail, were based on the plan proposed by him.

Extracting the spectrum The intensity as a function of the path length difference (also denoted as retardation) in the interferometer and wavenumber is Peter Atkins, Julio De Paula. 2006.

First there is a real retardation of the Moon's angular rate of orbital motion, due to tidal exchange of angular momentum between Earth and Moon.

From this test, Terman concluded that mental retardation "represents the level of intelligence which is very, very common among Spanish-Indians and Mexican families of the Southwest and also among negroes.

Hypothyroidism may lead to deaf-mutism, motor rigidity and mental retardation.

Physiological changes caused by cocaine withdrawal include vivid and unpleasant dreams, insomnia or hypersomnia, increased appetite and psychomotor retardation or agitation.

Specific language impairment (SLI) main difficulty with language or the organized-symbol system used for communication in the absence of problems such as mental retardation, hearing loss, or emotional disorders.

Speech disorders may develop from nerve injury to the brain, muscular paralysis, structural defects, hysteria, or mental retardation.

Symptoms include motor retardation, developmental disability and numerous congenital anomalies causing serious health problems.

The general expression can be obtained In the general expression: *The relative phase retardation induced between the fast axis and the slow axis is given by * is the orientation of the fast axis with respect to the x-axis.

The two plaintiffs L.C. and E.W. were institutionalized in Georgia for diagnosed mental retardation and schizophrenia.

Under this convention, increase in (or ) indicates retardation (delay) in phase, while decrease indicates advance in phase.

Weir main A weir (also sometimes called an overflow dam) is a type of small overflow dam that is often used within a river channel to create an impoundment lake for water abstraction purposes and which can also be used for flow measurement or retardation.