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
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 (hu)
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

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