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- noun medicine
geriatric psychiatry
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psycho- + geriatrics
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Most of the in-patients needed long term care, being psychogeriatrics who suffered from atrophy of the frontal cortex or from depression, or were younger men and women having severe psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia.
The Jigsaw Man Britton, Paul, 1946- 1997
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