psychoneuroimmunology
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From psycho- + neuroimmunology.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
psychoneuroimmunology (uncountable)
- The study of the interactions between behavioural, neural, endocrine and immune functions.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 152:
- This topic is known as psychoneuroimmunology, and it is slowly inching its way into fashion, mostly resisted by doctors and mostly hyped by faith healers of one kind or another.