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Descriptor English: Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Descriptor Spanish: Personas con Discapacidad Intelectual
Descriptor personas con discapacidades mentales
Entry term(s) discapacitados mentales
minusválidos mentales
personas con discapacidad cognitiva
personas con discapacidad intelectual
personas con discapacidad mental
personas discapacitadas mentales
Scope note: Personas diagnosticadas de padecer un nivel intelectual significativamente más bajo que la media y que presentan un considerable problema adaptativo para la vida diaria o que carecen de independencia para las actividades de la vida diaria.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pessoas com Deficiência Intelectual
Descriptor French: Personnes handicapées mentales
Entry term(s): Disabled Persons, Intellectually
Disabled, Mentally
Intellectually Disabled Person
Intellectually Disabled Persons
Mentally Disabled
Mentally Disabled Person
Mentally Disabled Persons
Mentally Handicapped
Mentally Retarded
Person, Mentally Disabled
Persons with Intellectual Disability
Persons with Mental Disabilities
Persons, Intellectually Disabled
Persons, Mentally Disabled
Tree number(s): M01.150.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019989
Scope note: Persons diagnosed as having significantly lower than average intelligence and considerable problems in adapting to everyday life or lacking independence in regard to activities of daily living.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SN statistics & numerical data
Entry Combination: education:Education of Intellectually Disabled
Public MeSH Note: 2025; was PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES 1998-2024
History Note: 2025 (1998)
Related: Intellectual Disability MeSH
DeCS ID: 33554
Unique ID: D019989
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1998/01/01
Date of Entry: 1997/06/20
Revision Date: 2024/07/30
Persons with Intellectual Disabilities - Preferred
Concept UI M0029697
Scope note Persons diagnosed as having significantly lower than average intelligence and considerable problems in adapting to everyday life or lacking independence in regard to activities of daily living.
Preferred term Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Entry term(s) Disabled Persons, Intellectually
Disabled, Mentally
Intellectually Disabled Person
Intellectually Disabled Persons
Mentally Disabled
Mentally Disabled Person
Mentally Disabled Persons
Mentally Handicapped
Mentally Retarded
Person, Mentally Disabled
Persons with Intellectual Disability
Persons with Mental Disabilities
Persons, Intellectually Disabled
Persons, Mentally Disabled



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