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psychiatry

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

psychiatry(n = noun.cognition) psychological medicine, psychopathology - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders; Array

is a kind of medical specialty, medicine

has particulars: alienism, mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy

Derived forms adjective psychiatric₁, adjective psychiatrical₁, noun psychiatrist₁

psychiatry, n. [NL. psychiatria, fr. Gr. the mind + healing.].

The application of the healing art to mental diseases. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]

psychiatry, n. the study and treatment of mental disease.

Derivative

psychiatric adj. psychiatrical adj. psychiatrically adv. psychiatrist n.

Etymology

as PSYCHE + iatreia healing f. iatros healer

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