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.
(vÅ'kÄl fÅld) [TA] The sharp edge of a fold of mucous membrane overlying the vocal ligament and stretching along either wall of the larynx from the angle between the laminae of the thyroid cartilage to the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage; the vocal folds are the agents concerned in voice production.