单词 | psychiatry |
释义 | psychiatryn. The branch of medicine concerned with the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] psychiatry1828 psychiatrics1847 alienism1870 psych1895 trick-cycling1901 1828 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 328 Psychiatry or treatment of the diseases of the mind. 1886 A. B. Bruce Mirac. Elem. in Gospels v. 183 A problem in psychology and psychiatry. 1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 May 1092 The intervention of psychiatry in the reform of criminals. 1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke iv. 78 It took him..eighteen months to get himself moved up to the Scrubs, where they've got a psychiatry unit. 1976 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 133 96/1 In the last 25 years psychiatry has taken over many of the ‘healing’ functions of religion. 2003 Guardian 18 Jan. i. 22/2 No such aids [sc. histological, biochemical, or immunological tests] are available in psychiatry, which depends heavily on symptomatology and phenomenology to achieve a diagnosis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1828 |
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