Associations to the word «Psychosomatic»

Wiktionary

PSYCHOSOMATIC, adjective. (now rare) Pertaining to both the mind and the body.
PSYCHOSOMATIC, adjective. (medicine) (psychology) Pertaining to physical diseases, symptoms etc. which have mental causes.

Dictionary definition

PSYCHOSOMATIC, adjective. Used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats