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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
psychosomatic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
illness
▪ On the other hand, if we are under-stressed we will become lethargic and tired and psychosomatic illnesses could occur.
▪ Here is the basic pattern Of the engram which will contain the chronic psychosomatic illness in any patient.
▪ The full range of symptoms attributed to psychosomatic illness are shown in Table 1.
symptom
▪ There are several ways in which psychosomatic symptoms can be generated.
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▪ Here is the basic pattern Of the engram which will contain the chronic psychosomatic illness in any patient.
▪ In the psychosomatic sphere it might cause headaches during or because of coitus or a tendency to nausea whenever coitus was performed.
▪ On the other hand, if we are under-stressed we will become lethargic and tired and psychosomatic illnesses could occur.
▪ One fascinating interaction between mind and body is seen in an illness known as psychosomatic glycaemia fatigue.
▪ Predominantly a disorder of young people, and especially of women, a psychosomatic element seems involved.
▪ The psychosomatic viewpoint had been going more and more out of fashion for fifty years.
▪ The full range of symptoms attributed to psychosomatic illness are shown in Table 1.
▪ Was it purely physical or did it have a psychosomatic dimension, as her sudden and dramatic recovery could indicate?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
psychosomatic

1847, "pertaining to the relation between mind and body," from Greek psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + somatikos, from soma (genitive somatos) "body" (see somato-). Applied from 1938 to physical disorders with psychological causes. Etymologically it could as easily apply to emotional disorders with physical causes, but it is rarely used as such.

Wiktionary
psychosomatic

a. 1 (context now rare English) Pertaining to both the mind and the body. 2 (context medicine psychology English) Pertaining to physical diseases, symptoms etc. which have mental causes.

WordNet
psychosomatic

adj. used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis

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Usage examples of "psychosomatic".

From this attack you suffered a psychosomatic wound which manifested objectively in an open wound, but, Mr.

There might be things in this imaginary environment capable of inflicting subjective or psychosomatic injury which in turn might bring about actual bodily injury.

The Nonpol, needless to say, were specialists in psychosomatic weapons.

I presume from results observed, a number of non-lethal restraint devices such as psychosomatic paralysis weapons.

It was a psychosomatic instrument designed to induce all the physical symptoms of a selected number of virulent poisons.

I am immune to psychosomatic weapons, and the only weapon I permitted you to retain was a psychosomatic pistol.

With this new understanding, the fear, neurotic behavior, or psychosomatic complaint will go away, supposedly.

What normally passes for a psychosomatic phenomenon was of no interest to Sartre at this date.

He gives considerable weight to the psychosomatic, but the emphasis is always on the underlying intention.

If her affliction truly was psychosomatic, then perhaps it was a hallucinatory vision which effected her cure.

Such annoyances as headaches and other psychosomatic pains will fade and no longer bother you.

He delivered a blistering statement regarding the readiness of the general public to recognize psychosomatic illness, while failing to recognize the reverse: that illness of the body was often the cause of seeming illness of the mind.

They could have produced depression, confusion, and psychosomatic illness.

When we are ill there is a failure of coordination at one or more levels in these hierarchies, and the clarification of the relation of body to mind and psychosomatic illness requires a hierarchical approach.

Robin redbreasts hit the deck with psychosomatic ulcers and cholesterol overload.