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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The psychiatric study, treatment, and prevention of emotional and behavioral problems, especially of those that arise during early development.
Wiktionary
- n. psychiatry branch of psychiatry concerned with the prevention of mental illness, especially in the young
Etymologies
- ortho- + psychiatry (Wiktionary)
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