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somatic symptom disorder

somatic symptom disorder noun: extreme anxiety concerning physical symptoms.

Noun

somatic symptom disorder (countable and uncountable, plural somatic symptom disorders)

  1. Extreme anxiety concerning physical symptoms.
  2. Any mental disorder that manifests as physical symptoms that suggest illness or injury, but cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition or by the direct effect of a substance, and are not attributable to another mental disorder.

Synonyms of somatic symptom disorder

Forms of somatic symptom disorder

pluralsomatic symptom disorders

Questions about somatic symptom disorder

What does somatic symptom disorder mean?
Somatic symptom disorder means extreme anxiety concerning physical symptoms.
What part of speech is somatic symptom disorder?
Somatic symptom disorder is a noun.
What is the plural of somatic symptom disorder?
The plural of somatic symptom disorder is somatic symptom disorders.

Words near somatic symptom disorder in the dictionary

  1. somatic cells
  2. somatic nervous system
  3. somatic nervous systems
  4. somatic sensory cortex
  5. somatic sensory cortices
  6. somatic symptom disorder
  7. somatic symptom disorders
  8. somatical
  9. somatically
  10. somaticism
  11. somaticize

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