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Psychiatry

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Noun
  1. 1
    The branch of medicine that focuses on mental and behavioral health by subjectively diagnosing, treating, or preventing mental disorders (mental illnesses) and behavioural conditions. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders wordnet

Etymology

First attested in 1846. From French psychiatrie, from Medieval Latin psȳchīātria. By surface analysis, psych- + -iatry.

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