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idiocy
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idiocy /id·i·o·cy/ (id´e-ah-se) obsolete, offensive name for profound mental retardation.
amaurotic idiocy , amaurotic familial idiocy former name for neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.
mongolian idiocy  former name for Down syndrome or the associated mental retardation; now considered offensive.

id·i·o·cy (d--s)
n.
The state or condition of being an idiot; profound mental retardation.

idiocy
a state of severe mental retardation, difficult to determine in an animal but typical examples are calves with hydranencephaly, yearling cattle with polioencephalomalacia.

juvenile amaurotic familial idiocy
see amaurotic familial idiocy.

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