EMBEDA exposes patients and other users to the risks of opioid addiction, abuse, and misuse, which can lead to overdose and death. Assess each patientâs risk prior to prescribing EMBEDA, and monitor all patients regularly for the development of these behaviors and conditions. Life-threatening Respiratory Depression
Definition of Mental retardation. Mental retardation: The condition of having an IQ measured as below 70 to 75 and significant delays or lacks in at least two areas of adaptive skills. Mental retardation is present from childhood. Between 2 and 3 percent of the general population meet the criteria for mental retardation.
Intellectual disability (ID), also called intellectual development disorder (IDD) or general learning disability, and formerly known as mental retardation (MR), is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning. Retarded comes from the Latin retardare, to make slow, delay, keep back, or hinder, so mental retardation meant the same as mentally delayed. 2  The term was recorded in 1426 as a fact or action of making slower in movement or time.. 3  The first record of retarded in relation to being mentally slow was in 1895.