Psychiatric

Psychiatric
Pertaining to or within the purview of psychiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness. Psychiatric may refer to mental illness. For example, the 42-year-old man had a long history of psychiatric disease.
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Relating to psychiatry.

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psy·chi·at·ric .sī-kē-'a-trik adj
1) relating to or employed in psychiatry <\psychiatric disorders> <\psychiatric drugs>
2) engaged in the practice of psychiatry: dealing with cases of mental disorder <\psychiatric experts> <\psychiatric nursing> <a \psychiatric ward>
psy·chi·at·ri·cal·ly -tri-k(ə-)lē adv

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