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mental

Definitions

adjective

  1. affected by a disorder of the mind
  2. of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks
  3. of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
  4. of or relating to the mind
  5. involving the mind or an intellectual process

Examples

According to police and prosecutors, the two got into a fight after she told him he should be committed to a mental hospital.

While the site focuses mainly on their environmental concerns, they're also up in arms about the Bush administration's general abuse and disregard for science - including the idea that abstinence is some kind of cureall.

In a field where biological material is limited, experimental cytogenetic techniques often require only a few cells.

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psychoactive

Definitions

adjective

  1. affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes

Examples

Since the late 1970s, increasing work has focused primarily on human hair analysis for illicit psychoactives and medicinals.

Why do more than a hundred species go to the trouble of manufacturing this one psychoactive molecule?

The receptors are also sensitive to the compound THC, the primary psychoactive chemical in marijuana.

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