Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals and psychiatric wards (psych wards) when they are a sub-unit of a regular hospital, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.
1 of, pertaining to, or uttered with the voice:the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism. 2  Music and Dancerendered by or intended for singing:vocal music. 3  having a voice:A dog is a vocal, but not a verbal, being.
vocal cordsnoun [ plural ] uk â /ËvÉÊ.kÉl ËkÉËdz/ us â /ËvoÊ.kÉl ËkÉËrdz/ also vocal folds. âº a pair of folds at the upper end of the throat whose edges move quickly backwards and forwards and produce sound when air from the lungs moves over them. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words. The mouth & throat.