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PSYCHIATRIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychiatrist mean? 

PSYCHIATRIST (noun)
  The noun PSYCHIATRIST has 1 sense:

1. a physician who specializes in psychiatryplay

  Familiarity information: PSYCHIATRIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PSYCHIATRIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A physician who specializes in psychiatry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

head-shrinker; psychiatrist; shrink

Hypernyms ("psychiatrist" is a kind of...):

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychiatrist"):

alienist (a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness)

analyst; psychoanalyst (a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis)

Instance hyponyms:

Horney; Karen Danielsen Horney; Karen Horney (United States psychiatrist (1885-1952))

Jaspers; Karl Jaspers; Karl Theodor Jaspers (German psychiatrist (1883-1969))

Charles Frederick Menninger; Charles Menninger; Menninger (United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953))

Karl Augustus Menninger; Karl Menninger; Menninger (United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990))

Menninger; William Claire Menninger; William Menninger (United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966))

Harry Stack Sullivan; Sullivan (United States psychiatrist (1892-1949))

Derivation:

psychiatry (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)


 Context examples 


Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 21 Item (HAMD-21) Loss of weight on weekly ratings by war psychiatrist, when actual weight changes are measured.

(HAMD-21 - Loss of Weight Measured, NCI Thesaurus)

The full moon in Virgo on March 9 will fill your eighth house of other people’s money, so there’s a good chance your insurance company will cover your visits to the doctor or psychiatrist.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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