psychiatric
English
Etymology
From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sī'-ki-ătʹ-rĭk, IPA(key): /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ætɹɪk
- Hyphenation: psy‧chi‧at‧ric
Adjective
psychiatric (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
- 1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:
- Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.
Derived terms
- antipsychiatric
- biopsychiatric
- chemopsychiatric
- ecopsychiatric
- ethnopsychiatric
- gerontopsychiatric
- geropsychiatric
- immunopsychiatric
- medicopsychiatric
- neuropsychiatric
- nonpsychiatric
- orthopsychiatric
- pedopsychiatric
- postpsychiatric
- psychiatrically
- psychiatric deluge
- psychiatric hospital
- psychiatric nurse
- psychiatric ward
- telepsychiatric
- unpsychiatric
Translations
of, or relating to, psychiatry
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Noun
psychiatric (plural psychiatrics)
- (dated) A person who has a psychiatric disorder.
- 1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, page 907:
- They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled.
Interlingua
Adjective
psychiatric (not comparable)