Medical Dictionary

mental incapacity

noun

Medical Definition of MENTAL INCAPACITY

1
:  an absence of mental capacity
2
:  an inability through mental disorder or mental retardation of any sort to carry on the everyday affairs of life or to care for one's person or property with reasonable discretion
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