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.
Medical Definition of Vocal cord paralysis. Vocal cord paralysis: Inability of one or both vocal folds (vocal cords) to move. The paralysis is usually due to damage to the nerves going to the vocal cords or due to damage to the brain itself. In more technical terms, vocal cord paralysis may result from lesions in the nucleus ambiguus or its supranuclear tracts in the brain, the main trunk of the vagus nerve, or the recurrent laryngeal nerves (which supply the larynx.