psychiatric
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5.4
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkiˈætrɪk/
- Specialized
:
psiquiátrico
- My friend is a doctor who works in psychiatric care and helps people with mental health issues.
- a psychiatric association
- psychiatric disorders
- a psychiatric hospital
That's just a court ordered psychiatric care for folks.
- That's just a court ordered psychiatric care for folks.
- As I sit here before you, I've never had one psychiatric counseling session.
- It was a long term psychiatric inpatient ward.
- Now, thank goodness things worked out or I'd probably be paying psychiatric bills to this day.
- So those are sort of psychiatric, you know, disorders.
- And what I realized is most psychiatric problems, they're not mental, they're brain.
- Why was she sent to a psychiatric facility?
- Before I went, I sat down with the psychiatric nurse.
- And it's been able to reverse bipolar disorder and other psychiatric disorders through metabolic insights.
- I am a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
- But yeah, see these let's do you have to do psychiatric reports on these people as well?
Examples
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My office had forced me to take medical leave and get a psychiatric evaluation.
Fiction book (1998) -
The Judge ordered him into psychiatric care.
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How is the patient's psychiatric status in that disease stage?
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This is an emergency psychiatric unit.
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My only concern is that somebody get this woman some psychiatric help.
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Why was she sent to a psychiatric facility?
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Then my friends and the psychiatrist wanted me to go to a psychiatric day care program.
Fiction book (1998) -
Eight people had been hospitalized for psychiatric reasons within the past year.
Academic text (2008) -
She was undergoing psychiatric treatment.
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Dr. James Martin here for the psychiatric evaluation of Edward Wayne Brady.
Synonyms
606
3.7
Relating to illnesses of the mind, such as depression
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychiatric = psychiatry (semi-transparent) = psych + iatr + ic
The word 'psychiatry' is not immediately recognizable to all learners as the base of 'psychiatric', though it is a standard derivation.
Etymology
Psychiatric comes from the Greek word psyche meaning 'mind' and the medical part -iatric, which means 'doctor' or 'medical care' and appears in words like pediatric and geriatric. So, psychiatric means 'medical care for the mind', which is why it describes the study, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness.