neuropsychiatry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The branch of medicine dealing with disorders that have both neurological and psychiatric features.
Uncountable
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥ Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der. Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron) Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der. English neuro- French psych- French -iatre French psychiatre Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Middle French -ie French -ie French psychiatriebor. English psychiatry English neuropsychiatry From neuro- + psychiatry.