-iatry: Suffix meaning medical treatment. From the Greek "iatreia" meaning healing, which came from "iatros" meaning treatment (or physician). Psychiatry is literally the medical treatment of the psyche.
-iatry: Suffix meaning medical treatment. From the Greek "iatreia" meaning healing, which came from "iatros" meaning treatment (or physician). Psychiatry is literally the ...
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary suff. Medical treatment: psychiatry. [Greek -iÄtreia , art of healing, from iÄtros , physician. See -iatric
a combining form occurring in compound words that have the general sense “healing, medical practice,†with the initial element usually denoting the area treated ...
a combining form occurring in compound words that have the general sense “healing, medical practice,†with the initial element usually denoting the area treated ...
medical treatment: podiatry, psychiatry