See Also: social medicine(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Leishman(dictionary)
Leishman's stain(medicine)
Leishman, Sir William(medicine)
Leishman stain(medicine)
Leishman-Donovan body(medicine)
Leishman's chrome cells(medicine)
Leishman-Donovan bodies(medicine)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)

social psychiatry (medicine) and Leishman (iou)


social psychiatry (medicine)


social psychiatry


An approach to psychiatric theory and practice emphasizing the cultural and sociological aspects of mental disorder and treatment; the application of psychiatry to social problems.

See: community psychiatry.


Leishman (iou)



Leishman noun. E20.
[W. B. Leishman (1865-1926), Brit. pathologist.]
Medicine.
Leishman body, Leishman's body, an ovoid structure consisting of a single non-flagellated leishmania found in the macrophages of people with leishmaniasis. Also Leishman-Donovan body. E20.
Leishman stain, Leishman's stain, a mixture of eosin and methylene blue used to stain blood smears. E20.