psychosomatic.

Involving interactions between psychological factors and bodily functioning or symptoms.

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Words that belong together

• psychosomatic symptoms
• psychosomatic medicine

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The study considered psychosomatic interactions without denying the bodily symptoms.

She challenged the dismissive use of psychosomatic in the account.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Relational adjective; comparative and superlative normally not used. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.