psychosomatic

English

WOTD – 8 November 2009

Etymology

psycho- +‎ somatic

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪkəʊsəˈmætɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /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

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心理作用引起的 (xīnlǐ zuòyòng yǐnqǐ de), 身心 (zh) (shēn-xīn)

• Czech: psychosomatický m
• Danish: psykosomatisk
• Estonian: psühhosomaatiline
• Finnish: psykosomaattinen (fi)
• French: psychosomatique (fr) m or f
• German: psychosomatisch (de)
• Greek: ψυχοσωματικός (el) (psychosomatikós)
• Hungarian: pszichoszomatikus

• Icelandic: geðvefrænn m
• Italian: psicosomatico
• Japanese: 心身 (しんしん, shinshin)
• Macedonian: психосоматски m (psihosómatski)
• Norwegian: psykosomatisk
• Portuguese: psicossomático (pt)
• Russian: психосомати́ческий (ru) (psixosomatíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: психосоматски m
• Spanish: psicosomático (es)
• Swedish: psykosomatisk (sv)
• Turkish: psikosomatik (tr)

See also

• somatoform

Anagrams

• somatopsychic