psychiatric ward
Noun
Meaning
psychiatric ward (plural psychiatric wards)
A facility for treating patients with mental disorders, a mental hospital.
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Examples
Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.
I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.
Anna was discharged from the psychiatric ward last year, and has become much more stable.
He hit rock bottom, and spent six weeks at Rush University Medical Center’s psychiatric ward, where he underwent shock therapy: “After several sessions, I knew I got better when the nurse came in my room and said, ‘When was your last bowel movement?’
In the days that followed, he was sectioned in a psychiatric ward.
Five of the deaths were linked to a hospital in Cheongdo, near Daegu, where a slew of infections were confirmed among patients in a psychiatric ward.