= Cretinism = is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content). amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation. anosognosia The apparent unawareness of or failure to recognize one†™ s own functional defect apathy Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bush Claims Program That Monitors Tens of Millions of Americans ‘Strictly Targets Al Qaeda’] Reference

U.fol. oppofids ovads fobintegerrimis, amentia fhiftiferis globofis. a pumita.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilivm secvndvm classes, ordines, genera, species cvm characteribvs et differentiis. Editio decima quarta praecedente longe avctior et correctior cvrante Io. Andrea Mvrray ..] Reference

Acute miliary tuberculosis may produce the impression of a general paresis or of an amentia in Meynert's sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

Binswanger states that tuberculosis, aside from miliary tuberculosis or meningitis, produces no mental disorder except phenomena of the amentia of exhaustion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

According to Ziehen, most of these nephritic psychoses run the course of what he calls hallucinatory paranoia (it may be remembered that Ziehen counts among paranoias a number of acute diseases and even so-called Meynert's amentia).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

A conversation with almost any rural teacher will impress upon one the fact that the teacher is loath to declare feeble-minded a child whose records give unmistakable evidence of amentia and that she generally regards the child as merely dull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Problems of Today] Reference

Is this debate that shouldn’t be one a uniquely American amentia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Follow-up on “Don’t Piss Off Krissy” « Whatever] Reference

amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Kristol: Cheney’s Claim That Lamont Win Helps ‘Al-Qaeda Types’ Is ‘Indisputably Correct’] Reference

Influenced by Griesinger’s 389 concept of unitary psychosis, in which insanity passed through stages of melancholia, mania, amentia, and finally dementia, Kahlbaum carefully detailed the sequential emergence of each stage of catatonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Or perhaps they’ve just mutated because of his party’s support of brown-fields, arsenic-laced water, mountain-top removal and pretty much every other plutocratic endeavor to turn your children’s backyard into Yucca Mountain while hiding behind the usual rhetorical amentia.    From Wordnik.com.  [07/21/2006] Reference

Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content). amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation. anosognosia The apparent unawareness of or failure to recognize one’s own functional defect apathy Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006] Reference

Opes quidem mortalibus sunt amentia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Alzheimer's disease, blindness or developmental amentia, e.g.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shad Plank] Reference