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Psychiatry

The application of the healing art to mental diseases.

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Alienism 76% connected

The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.

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Medicine 76% connected

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

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Psychiatric 74% connected

Of or pertaining to psychiatria.

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Psychiatric 74% connected

Of or pertaining to psychiatria.

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Anxiety disorder noun · 78% connection

a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom

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Clinical depression noun · 78% connection

a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

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Depression noun · 78% connection

a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

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Depressive disorder noun · 78% connection

a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

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Disturbance noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

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Folie noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

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Mental disorder noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

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Mental disturbance noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

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Phobia noun · 78% connection

an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…

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Phobic disorder noun · 78% connection

an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…

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Phobic neurosis noun · 78% connection

an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…

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Psychological disorder noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

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Aesculapian adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: application, healing, mental, diseases.
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Alienation noun · 78% connection

Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.

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Anagoge noun · 78% connection

The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

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Antiplastic adjective · 78% connection

Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.

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Antipyrotic noun · 78% connection

Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.

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Application noun · 78% connection

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or cor…

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Cauterization noun · 78% connection

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

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Cicatrizant noun · 78% connection

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

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Conceptualism noun · 78% connection

the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the ap…

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Conversion disorder noun · 78% connection

a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…

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Conversion hysteria noun · 78% connection

a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…

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Conversion reaction noun · 78% connection

a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…

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Debridement noun · 78% connection

surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing

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Faculty noun · 78% connection

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…

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Generalize verb · 78% connection

To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make u…

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Healing adjective · 78% connection

Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.

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Impression noun · 78% connection

a clear and telling mental image; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world…

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Intensity noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

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