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CRETINISM Definition & Legal Meaning

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In medical jurisprudence. A form of Imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland and some other parts of Europe, but the term is applied to similar states occurring elsewhere.

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