PSYCHOSOMATICS


Meaning of PSYCHOSOMATICS in English

-d.iks noun plural but singular in construction

Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary psychosomat- (from psychosomatic ) (I) + -ics

: a branch of medical science that deals with the interrelationships between mental or emotional and somatic processses and especially with the manner in which intrapsychic conflict influences somatic symptomatology : psychosomatic medicine — compare physiological psychology , psychophysics

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.