Psychosomatic (redirected from medicine psychosomatic)

psychosomatic /psy·cho·so·mat·ic/ (-sah-mat´ik) pertaining to the mind-body relationship; having bodily symptoms of psychic, emotional, or mental origin.

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psy·cho·so·mat·ic (sk-s-mtk)

adj.

1. Of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes.

2. Relating to or concerned with the influence of the mind on the body, especially with respect to disease.

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Psychosomatic

Referring to physical symptoms that are caused or significantly influenced by emotional factors. Some doctors regard couvade syndrome as a psychosomatic condition.

Mentioned in: Couvade Syndrome

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psychosomatic (sīkōsōmat´ik),

adj 1. pertaining to the expression of an emotional conflict through physical symptoms.
adj 2. pertaining to the mind-body relationship; having bodily symptoms of a psychic, emotional, or mental origin. See also disease, psychosomatic.

psychosomatic factors,

n See factor, psychosomatic.

psychosomatic, medicine,

n the branch of medicine concerned with the interrelationships between mental and emotional reactions and somatic processes, in particular the manner in which intrapsychic conflicts influence physical symptoms.

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psychosomatic

pertaining to the interrelations of mind and body; having bodily clinical signs of psychic, emotional or mental origin.

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psychosomatic disease

there are no identified psychosomatic diseases in animals. Abomasal ulcer in bulls in artificial insemination centers, esophagogastric ulcer in pigs, ulcerative colitis in dogs are possible candidates for the classification. The suggested mechanism for the development of disease in this way is that the cerebral cortex (via the psyche) overrides the normal, adaptive, feedback mechanisms by which the pituitary gland regulates the secretion of corticosteroids in response to stress of any sort. For this reason the adrenal cortex is overstimulated, develops hyperadrenocorticism first and then exhaustion.