mongoloid
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- n a member of the Mongoloid race
- n a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense)
- a characteristic of or resembling a Mongol
the mongoloid epicanthic fold - a of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia
- a of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome;
- In the 14th, the mother of one mongoloid child said she would rather have another mongol than an abortionand she did.
- Amniocentesis can now quite accurately predict whether a fetus is mongoloid; women carrying such abnormal fetuses are now encouraged, where it is legal, to have abortions.
- One example: a Baltimore couple who let their mongoloid baby die of starvation by refusing permission for an operation to open his digestive tract.