Imbecile
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title:
Imbecile
text:
The term imbecile was once used by psychiatrists to denote a category of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability, as well as a type of criminal. The word arises from the Latin word imbecillus, meaning weak, or weak-minded. It originally referred to people of the second order in a former and discarded classification of intellectual disability, with a mental age of three to seven years and an IQ of 25–50, above "idiot" and below "moron". In the obsolete medical classification, these
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Archaic psychiatric term to denote intellectual disability
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbecile
date created:
2003-12-10T21:54:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T04:52:05Z
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