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• mental hospital — noun a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person • Syn: ↑psychiatric hospital, ↑mental institution, ↑institution, ↑mental home, ↑insane asylum, ↑asylum • Derivationally related forms: ↑institutional …   Useful english dictionary

• mental hospital — Synonyms and related words: VA hospital, asylum, base hospital, bedlam, bughouse, clinic, community hospital, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, evacuation hospital, field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital, infirmary, inpatient… …   Moby Thesaurus

• mental hospital — /ˈmɛntl hɒspɪtl/ (say mentl hospitl) noun → psychiatric hospital. Also, mental asylum, mental home …  

• Mental health in Singapore during the colonial period — Mental health in Singapore has its roots in the West. The first medical personnel in the field were mostly from Britain. Medical education in the early years was almost exclusively for the British, until the establishment of King Edward VII… …   Wikipedia

• mental patient — noun (old) A person being treated in a mental home or hospital • • • Main Entry: ↑mental …   Useful english dictionary

• mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …   Universalium

• mental home — noun a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person • Syn: ↑mental hospital, ↑psychiatric hospital, ↑mental institution, ↑institution, ↑insane asylum, ↑asylum • Derivationally related forms: ↑institut …   Useful english dictionary

• MENTAL ILLNESS — Man has been subject to mental illness from the earliest known times. The Bible makes frequent reference   to it among Jews, and describes recognizable types of mental disturbances. The reference in Leviticus 20:27, A man also or a woman that… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• home — Synonyms and related words: Heaven, Paradise, VA hospital, Vaterland, a better place, abode, accessible, adept in, afterlife, afterworld, almshouse, ancestral halls, asylum, at ease, at home, available, bailiwick, base hospital, birthplace,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• home — n 1. abode, domicile, domicil, dwelling, dwelling place, dwelling home, residence, residency, habitation, inhabitancy, Scot, and North Eng. bigging, Scot. howff; lodging, lodgings, lodging place, lodgement or lodgment, nest, roost, perch;… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• hospital — Synonyms and related words: VA hospital, asylum, base hospital, clinic, community hospital, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, dispensary, evacuation hospital, field hospital, general hospital, home, infirmary, inpatient clinic, maison de… …   Moby Thesaurus