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A student whose mental capacity lacks maturity or is so deficient as to hinder normal achievement.  

A scientific discipline primarily concerned with healthful personality development and the prevention of psychiatric disorders, mental health. The science of developing and maintaining mental health and preventing mental illness.  

The inability for a person to cope adequately and appropriately with life. All forms of illness in which psychological, intellectual, emotional or behavioral disturbances are the dominating feature. The term is relative and variable in different cultures, schools of thought and definitions. It includes a wide range of types (such as psychic and physical, neurotic…

A mental disorder0 associated with an organic or functional disease of the nervous system.  

Mental retardation. A former term for learning disability.  

A test that measures an individual’s ability to comprehend and rapidly indentify verbal, mathematical, and visual symbols.  

A test measuring general learning ability. Used to measure potential for success in education or in career choice.  

The simultaneous occurrence of the menstrual cycles of women living in close proximity to one another. This is thought to evolve over the course of a few months through a gradual synchronization process.  

To undergo cyclic buildup and destruction of the uterine wall, menstruation. To bleed from the uterus during menstruation.  

A vacuum aspiration of the uterus, performed up to 6 weeks after the beginning of the last menstrual period. Vacuum or suction curettage of the uterus done within the first two weeks following the expected date of the onset of menstruation. If the amenorrhea was due to pregnancy, the procedure is classed as a form…