psychosomatic

WOTD - 8 November 2009    

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Etymology

From psycho- + somatic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌsaɪkəʊsəˈmætɪk/
• (US) IPA: /ˌsaɪkoʊsəˈmædɪk/

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Adjective

psychosomatic (comparative more psychosomatic, superlative most psychosomatic)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to both the mind and the body.
2. (medicine, psychology) Pertaining to physical diseases, symptoms etc. which have mental causes.

Translations

of physical effects with mental causes

Chinese: Mandarin: 精神身體相關的, 精神身体相关的 (jīngshén shēntǐ xiāngguān de), 身心 (zh) (shēn-xīn) Czech: psychosomatický (cs) m. Danish: psykosomatisk (da) Estonian: psühhosomaatiline (et) Finnish: psykosomaattinen (fi) French: psychosomatique (fr) m. and f. German: psychosomatisch (de) Greek: ψυχοσωματικός (el)

Hungarian: pszichoszomatikus (hu) Italian: psicosomatico (it) Macedonian: психосоматски (mk) (psihosómatski) m. Norwegian: psykosomatisk (no) Russian: психосоматический (ru) Serbian: психосоматски (sr) m. Spanish: psicosomático (es) Swedish: psykosomatisk (sv) Turkish: psikosomatik (tr)

See also

• somatoform