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)

(now rare) Pertaining to both the mind and the body.
(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

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