Psühhiaatriliste

Psühhiaatriliste is an Estonian adjective form meaning psychiatric, used to describe things related to psychiatry and mental health. It is the genitive plural form of the base adjective psühhiaatriline and appears when describing plural nouns in the genitive case, such as haiguste (illnesses) or teenuste (services). The base form is psühhiaatriline in singular nominative, while psühhiaatriliste is found in phrases like psühhiaatriliste haiguste ravimine or psühhiaatriliste teenuste kättesaadavus.

In usage, psühhiaatriline and its inflected forms appear frequently in medical, academic, and policy contexts. It is used to classify or discuss topics within psychiatry, such as psychiatric disorders, treatments, research, and health services. For example, phrases like psühhiaatriliste haiguste klassifikatsioon (classification of psychiatric diseases) or psühhiaatriliste teenuste kvaliteet (quality of psychiatric services) are common. The term is typically translated into English as psychiatric.

Etymologically, psühhiaatriline is formed from psühhiaatria (psychiatry) with the standard Estonian adjective suffix -iline, which yields a descriptor related to the field. The same morphological pattern applies to related terms, enabling consistent formation of phrases across medical and scientific language.

Overall, psühhiaatriliste functions as a grammatical form that anchors plural nominative or genitive constructions in discussions about psychiatry, while the underlying concept remains the English “psychiatric.”