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mon·gol·ism also Mon·gol·ism

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NOUN:
Offensive

Down syndrome.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Mongolian, term used in a system of classification for mentally retarded people, devised around ethnic lines by John Langdon Haydon Down (1828-1896), British physician

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