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.
See-voc-. 1  of, relating to, or produced with the voice:the vocal sounds. 2  Music and Danceintended for singing:vocal music. 3  willing to express oneself in words, esp. in many words or insistently; outspoken:a vocal advocate of reform. 4  Phoneticsa vocal sound. 5  a musical piece for a singer; 6  song. 7  a performance of such a piece.