mental hospital
Noun
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Noun
mental hospital (plural mental hospitals)
- A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.
- Synonyms: psychiatric hospital, Thesaurus:mental hospital
- French: clinique psychiatrique, hôpital psychiatrique, asile psychiatrique; asile de fous (colloquial)
- German: psychiatrische Klinik;Nervenheilanstalt, Irrenanstalt (colloquial), Nervenklinik, Verrücktenanstalt (colloquial)
- Italian: ospedale psichiatrico; manicomio (obsolete)
- Portuguese: hospital psiquiátrico, (offensive) manicómio (Portugal), manicômio (Brazil), hospício, frenocómio (Portugal), frenocômio (Brazil)
- Russian: психиатри́ческая больни́ца
- Spanish: hospital psiquiátrico; manicomio (offensive), frenopático (colloquial)
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