psychosomatics

psychosomatics
\\-d.iks\ noun plural but singular in construction
: a branch of medical science that deals with the interrelationships between mental or emotional and somatic processses and especially with the manner in which intrapsychic conflict influences somatic symptomatology : psychosomatic medicine — compare physiological psychology, psychophysics

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psychosomatˈics singular noun
The study of psychosomatic conditions
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