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The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person."
A brain-dead individual has no clinical evidence of brain function upon physical examination. This includes no response to pain and no cranial nerve reflexes. Reflexes include pupillary response (fixed pupils), oculocephalic reflex, corneal reflex, no response to the caloric reflex test, and no spontaneous respirations.
Alligator bait, ' gator bait: [4] [5] A racist slur used to describe black children and young people, comparing their worth to bait used to catch alligators; the term ' gator bait was banned from a common cheer in Florida due to its offensive meaning, and is generally no longer used. Ancient: An insulting term to refer to an older person or ...
I am taking accountability and want to make it clear that I was 13 years old and did not understand the deeply offensive meaning behind that word,” Earle said in the statement. “That is no ...
Brain Dead, brain dead or brain-dead may refer to: Medicine. Brain death, the irreversible cessation of all brain activity; Cinema and television.
People who spend a lot of time on social media have noticed that the online world is increasingly creeping into the physical world. They’re attributing the phenomenon to “brain rot.”
Alix Earle is apologizing again for using racial slurs directed at Black people a decade ago.. The social media breakout star, 23, who rose to fame by posting "get ready with me" videos as a ...
The English language, along with other European ones, adopted the word and used it as similar meaning, slow and delayed. In English, the word "to decelerate " would become a more common term than "to retard", while in others like French [ 9 ] or Catalan, [ 10 ] retard is still in common usage to mean 'delay' ( tard ).