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psychiatric hospital
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psychiatric hospital
n.
A hospital for the care and treatment of patients affected with acute or chronic mental illness. Also called mental hospital.

psychiatric hospital,
a health care facility providing inpatient and outpatient therapeutic services to clients with behavioral or emotional illnesses.


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