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psychomedicine

psychomedicine noun: any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.

Noun

psychomedicine (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.
    • The skull, nails and hairs are used in psychomedicine. The breast milk is used to prevent the eye ailments and to expell the spine or other particle from the body. The urine is also given in colic pain.1988, Sarat Chandra Roy (Rai Bahadur), Man in India (volume 68, page 295)
  2. The use of psychoactive drugs.
    • It is also called the age of new human sciences and life sciences including human biology, anthropology, cultural-anthropology, psychology and psychomedicine.1988, Yūichirō Nagatomi, Masayoshi Ohira's Proposal: To Evolve the Global Society, page 153

Origin of psychomedicine

From psycho- + medicine.

Questions about psychomedicine

What does psychomedicine mean?
Psychomedicine means any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.
What part of speech is psychomedicine?
Psychomedicine is a noun.

Words near psychomedicine in the dictionary

  1. psychomanteum
  2. psychomantic
  3. psychomechanical
  4. psychomechanics
  5. psychomedical
  6. psychomedicine
  7. psychomental
  8. psychometabolic
  9. psychometabolism
  10. psychometer
  11. psychometers

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