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n. - Extreme mental retardation.

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  • = Cretinism = is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.
  • In dementia the mental aberration does not occur until the mind has become fully developed, thus differing from amentia, which is congenital or comes on very early in life.
  • Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content)....
  • U.fol. oppofids ovads fobintegerrimis, amentia fhiftiferis globofis. a pumita.
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