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Noun: mental institution
  1. A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
    "The old mental institution was converted into a modern psychiatric treatment centre";
    - mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, institution, mental home, insane asylum [archaic], asylum

Derived forms: mental institutions

Type of: hospital, infirmary

Encyclopedia: Mental institution