单词 | psychiatric |
释义 | psychiatric (once / 3784 pages) adj The adjective psychiatric is good for describing things related to mental illness and its treatment. Use psychiatric when you're talking about the medical specialty that helps people with emotional or mental disorders. You could talk about a psychiatric nurse, a psychiatric hospital, or psychiatric drugs, for example. Any time you see a word that begins with psych you can be sure it has to do with the mind, since psykhe is "mind" in Greek. The suffix iatreia means "healing or care." WORD FAMILYpsychiatric: psychiatrically+/psychiatrist: psychiatrists/psychiatry: psychiatric, psychiatrical, psychiatries, psychiatrist USAGE EXAMPLESDistrict Judge Richard Gergel ordered a psychiatric examination of Roof and set the competency hearing for Monday, a federal holiday. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) He views the term as pejorative, and he is notably skeptical about the value of psychiatric diagnosis in voice-hearing cases: The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Dukakis receives her maintenance therapy at McLean Hospital in suburban Boston, one of the world’s largest and most renowned psychiatric hospitals. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) adj relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry psychiatric disorder psychiatric hospital Syn psychiatrical |
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