psychiatric

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry

   psychiatric disorder

2. 2
   adj

   Of, or relating to, psychiatry.

   Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who has a psychiatric disorder.

   They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled.

Etymology

From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric.