somatogenesis

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somatogenesis

[sō′matəjen′əsis]

Etymology: Gk, soma + genein, to produce

1 (in embryology) the development of the body from the germ plasm.

2 the development of a physical disease or symptoms from an organic pathophysiologic cause. Compare psychogenesis. somatogenetic, somatogenic, adj.

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psychogenesis			Beecher, 'The Lover's Body: The Somatogenesis of Love in Renaissance Medical Treatises', Renaissance and Reformation, 12 (1988), 1-11. Gismond of Salerne: an Elizabethan and Cupidean tragedy by Kingsley-Smith, Jane / Yearbook of English Studies In any case, by adding psychogenesis to somatogenesis, and psychogenic diseases (for example, perversions) to somatogenic diseases (for example, pneumonia), Freud expanded the conceptual categories of etiology and pathology. The case against psychiatric coercion by Szasz, Thomas / Independent Review			somatic motor nucleus somatic mutation somatic mutation theory of cancer somatic nerve somatic nervous system somatic pain somatic recall somatic reproduction somatic sensory cortex somatic swallow somatic therapy somatic-cell gene therapy somatics somation somatist somatization somatization disorder somato- somatochrome somatocrinin somatodyspraxia somatoemotional release somatoform somatoform disorder somatoform disorders somatogenesis somatogenic somatognosis somatoliberin somatology somatomammotropin somatome somatomedin somatomedin C somatomedin-C test somatomegaly somatometry somatomotor somatopagus somatopathic somatopathy somatoplasm somatopleure somatopsychic somatopsychosis somatoschisis somatoscopy somatosensory somatosensory cortex somatosensory event related potentials somatosensory evoked potential			somatization disorder somatization disorder somatization disorder somatization disorder somato- somato- Somato-Sensory Affectional Deprivation somatoblast somatochrome somatochrome somatoclonal variation somatocrinin Somatocyst Somatocyst somatodyspraxia somatoemotional release somatoform somatoform disorder somatoform disorder somatoform disorder somatoform disorder Somatoform disorders Somatoform disorders Somatoform disorders Somatoform disorders somatoform pain disorder somatoform pain disorder somatoform pain disorder somatoform pain disorder somatogamy somatogenesis somatogenetic somatogenetic somatogenic somatogenic somatognosis somatognosis somatoliberin somatologic somatologic somatologic somatological somatological somatological somatologist somatologist somatologist somatology somatology somatology somatomammotropin Somatome Somatome somatomedin somatomedin somatomedin Somatomedin C Somatomedin C Somatomedin C somatomedin-C test Somatomedins

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