psychosomatic

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 Danish: psykosomatisk Dutch: psychosomatisch (nl) Esperanto: psiĥosomata, psikosomata Estonian: psühhosomaatiline Finnish: psykosomaattinen (fi) French: psychosomatique (fr) German: psychosomatisch (de) Greek: ψυχοσωματικός (el) (psychosomatikós) Hungarian: pszichoszomatikus Icelandic: geðvefrænn Italian: psicosomatico Japanese: 心身 (ja) (しんしん, shinshin) Macedonian: психосоматски (psihosomatski) Norwegian: psykosomatisk Polish: psychosomatyczny (pl) Portuguese: psicossomático (pt) Russian: психосомати́ческий (ru) (psixosomatíčeskij) Serbo-Croatian: психосоматски Spanish: psicosomático (es) Swedish: psykosomatisk (sv) Turkish: psikosomatik (tr) Ukrainian: психосомати́чний (psyxosomatýčnyj)

See also

• somatoform

Anagrams

• somatopsychic