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Webster 1913 Edition

Psychiatry

{ ‖

Psy-chiˊa-tri′a

,

Psy-chi′a-try

, }

Noun.

[NL.

psychiatria

, fr. Gr. [GREEK] the mind + [GREEK] healing.]

(Med.)

The application of the healing art to mental diseases.

Dunglison.

Definition 2024

psychiatry

psychiatry

English

Noun

psychiatry ‎(usually uncountable, plural psychiatries)

(medicine) The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions.

Derived terms

Translations

branch of medicine dealing with mental illness

Arabic: الطِّبّ النَّفْسِيّ ‎(aṭ-ṭibb an-nafsiyy)
Catalan: psiquiatria (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 精神病學 (zh), 精神病学 (zh) ‎(jīngshénbìngxué)
Czech: psychiatrie (cs) f
Dutch: psychiatrie (nl) f
Esperanto: psikiatrio
Finnish: psykiatria (fi)
French: psychiatrie (fr) f
German: Psychiatrie (de) f, Seelenheilkunde f
Greek: ψυχιατρική (el) f ‎(psychiatrikí)
Hungarian: pszichiátria (hu)

Ido: psikiatrio (io)
Italian: psichiatria (it)
Japanese: 精神医学 ‎(せいしんいがく, seishingaku)
Latvian: psihiatrija f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: psykiatri m

Nynorsk: psykiatri m
Persian: روانپزشکی (fa) ‎((ravan-pezeshki))
Polish: psychiatria (pl) f
Portuguese: psiquiatria (pt) f
Romanian: psihiatrie (ro) f
Russian: психиатри́я (ru) f ‎(psixiatríja)
Scottish Gaelic: leigheas-inntinn m
Spanish: psiquiatría (es) f
Swedish: psykiatri (sv) c
Turkish: psikiyatri (tr)
Volapük: lanivestig, lienetisanav

See also

psychopathology