Retardation in a sentence as a noun

The party that claims the HPV vaccine causes retardation?

Man, i hope the iOS team gets shielded from this outbreak of retardation, lest they slit their wrists.

His intelligence decline at the end makes the reader feel like retardation is a very near threat to all of us. It's one of those threats that seems worse than death, too.

When we began therapy, his IQ was tested and scored in the low 80s—which is considered borderline mental retardation.

?\n\nIs there a particular reason why the 5 o'clock news is dumbed down to non-verbal pre-schooler degrees of retardation?

Similarly, I feel safe using the word "idiot" without fear that listeners will assume I am insulting people with mental retardation.

These errors in chromosome separation are the leading cause of miscarriage and mental retardation.

I think the low end of human "intelligence" would generally be associated with something more akin to mental retardation.

Other than testing for mid-to-high level mental retardation, subjectively, IQ tests seem to be terrible at measuring actual brilliance.

Have you ever seen an 8-year-old burst into tears because the rest of his class can read, but he can't, no matter how hard he tries?Unfortunately, self-delusion generally isn't one of the ways mental retardation presents.

One such disorder is Prader-Willi syndrome, a form of obesity associated with mild mental retardation that occurs in about 1 in 25,000 people and has been traced to abnormalities in a group of genes on chromosome 15.

So over a period of years your Scrooge McDuck money bin gets emptier and you are completely oblivious to this up until the point that it's basically empty?The kind of incompetence involved here borders on mental retardation.

Studies of biomarkers for “depression” might begin by looking across many disorders with anhedonia or emotional appraisal bias or psychomotor retardation to understand the circuitry underlying these symptoms.

Iodine deficiency can have serious consequences, causing abnormal neuronal development, mental retardation, congenital abnormalities, spontaneous abortion and miscarriage, congenital hypothyroidism, and infertility.

The problem is that expenditure of money represents an expenditure of resources, namely, the time and attention of these individuals allocating capital, some of whom maybe just have rich daddies but many of whom actually have to be among the best and brightest to win those positions; and as a result, those brilliant people are not able to spend their time and attention doing something that would actually be productive for society, such as sending rockets to Mars, inventing new ways to harness solar energy, remediating nutritional deficiencies that turn poverty into mental retardation, or writing peer-to-peer discussion-group software.

Retardation definitions

noun

a decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms race"

See also: deceleration slowing

noun

the extent to which something is delayed or held back

noun

any agent that retards or delays or hinders; "flame-retardant"

See also: retardant retardent

noun

lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

See also: backwardness slowness subnormality

noun

the act of slowing down or falling behind

See also: slowdown