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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

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  • “Because a visit to the children’s unit of a psychiatric hospital can be intense, Dr. Joshi recommends that sibling visits be conducted in the hospital cafeteria or in a place similarly secluded from the stark realities of life on the unit.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child

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