psychiatry
gb/saɪkˈaɪətɹi/ us/saɪkˈaɪətɹi/
B2
Kiingereza
~ 9700
Maana
maana 0
Nomino
technical
B2
entity
1
medical treatment of mental illness
A field of medicine that focuses on finding and treating problems with a person’s mind, emotions, and behavior.
Muundo wa matumizi:
[someone] works in psychiatry
Kosa la kawaida:
Learners often confuse "psychiatry" (the medical field) with "psychology" (the scientific study of the mind, not necessarily medical). Another mistake is using it like a countable noun, e.g., *"He is a psychiatry"* instead of "He works in psychiatry" or "He is a psychiatrist." Learners may also say *"I went to psychiatry"* when they should say "I went to a psychiatrist" or "I went to the psychiatry department."
Visawe
psychological medicine (A more formal or older term that stresses the link between medicine and mental processes; less common in everyday use.)
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mental health medicine (Informal descriptive phrase; broader and less precise than the standard technical term "psychiatry".)
Vinyume
general medicine (Focuses mainly on physical illnesses, contrasting with psychiatry’s focus on mental and emotional disorders.)
Miunganiko ya maneno
clinical psychiatry
|child psychiatry
|forensic psychiatry
|modern psychiatry
|the practice of psychiatry
Mada
health
|science
|medicine
|mental_health
|core_vocabulary
Mifano
- She decided to specialize in psychiatry after working on a mental health helpline.
- Modern psychiatry combines medication with different forms of psychotherapy.
- The hospital is known for its strong psychiatry department.
- Advances in psychiatry have changed how society understands depression.
- He is writing a textbook on cultural issues in psychiatry.
Mifano kwa wanafunzi
- He studies psychiatry at university.
- My sister works in psychiatry at a large hospital.
- Psychiatry helps people with serious mental health problems.
- I want to learn more about psychiatry and how it treats depression.
- Psychiatry is different from psychology because it is a part of medicine.
Sarufi
Umbo la kamusi
psychiatry
IPA
GB/saɪkˈaɪətɹi/
US/saɪkˈaɪətɹi/
Silabi na mkazo
psy - chi - atry (silabi 3)
Stress on 2nd syllable (chi)
Maumbo ya neno
Noun
- Base: psychiatry
- Plural: psychiatries, psychiatry
Familia ya neno
Forms
psychiatries
noun
Core family
psychiatrist
noun B2
psychiatric
adjective B2
Advanced or less common
psychiatrically
adverb
Semi
Bado hakuna semi zilizounganishwa na ingizo hili.