developmental disability

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developmental disability (plural developmental disabilities)

  1. Any life-long disability attributable to mental and/or physical impairments, manifested during childhood or later in the human development age (variously given as being before age 16, 18, or 21).
  2. (euphemistic) Mental retardation.

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