Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
spousal abuse
spous·al a·buse
Subclass of:
Intimate Partner Violence; Domestic Violence
Definitions related to spousal abuse:
  • (spouse abuse) Deliberate severe and repeated injury to one domestic partner by the other.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (spouse abuse) Repeated deliberate injury inflicted by one spouse on the other.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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