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What does psychosomatic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word psychosomatic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (now rare) Pertaining to both the mind and the body.
  2. (medicine) Pertaining to physical diseases, symptoms etc. which have mental causes.
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We have identified the psychosomatic traits in modern medicine linked to the reversible unbalance of qi, blood, and body fluid in ill-health.
The boss has a daughter who is confined to a wheelchair by a psychosomatic illness.
The subject group was comprised of 20 sixth-year medical students who joined the four-week elective course in Oriental psychosomatic medicine.
His site investigates psychosomatic illnesses, with emphasis on post traumatic stress disorder, chemical imbalances and childhood stress.
Physically, they have been put under chronic stress, causing spondylitis, back pain, insomnia, and other psychosomatic illnesses.
Since the human person is a psychosomatic being, fasting also means satisfying both bodily and spiritual needs.

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