Medical Dictionary

psychosomatics

noun pl but singular in constr psy·cho·so·mat·ics \ˌsī-kə-sə-ˈmat-iks, -kō-, -sō-\

Medical Definition of PSYCHOSOMATICS

:  a branch of medical science dealing with interrelationships between the mind or emotions and the body and especially with the relation of psychic conflict to somatic symptomatology
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