mental disease or defect

mental disease or defect

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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  • mental disease or defect — See insanity …   Black's law dictionary

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  • mental defect — n: an abnormal mental condition (as mental retardation) that may be of a more fixed nature than a mental disease Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …   Universalium

  • mental defect — A defect in the mind of a person. For the purposes of the Durham or product test of criminal responsibility, a condition which is not considered capable of either improving or deteriorating, and which may be either congenital, the result of… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • defect — de·fect / dē ˌfekt, di fekt/ n: something or a lack of something that results in incompleteness, inadequacy, or imperfection: as a: a flaw in something (as a product) esp. that creates an unreasonable risk of harm in its normal use see also… …   Law dictionary

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  • mental retardation — noun lack of normal development of intellectual capacities • Syn: ↑retardation, ↑backwardness, ↑slowness, ↑subnormality • Derivationally related forms: ↑subnormal (for: ↑subnormality), ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • metabolic disease — ▪ pathology Introduction       any of the diseases or disorders that disrupt normal metabolism, the process of converting food to energy on a cellular (cell) level. Thousands of enzymes participating in numerous interdependent metabolic pathways… …   Universalium

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