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somatosis

somatosis noun: the manifestation of severe, unexpressed psychological distress or trauma directly through the body (soma) in the absence of a clear organic disease.

Noun

somatosis (uncountable)

  1. the manifestation of severe, unexpressed psychological distress or trauma directly through the body (soma) in the absence of a clear organic disease

Words formed from somatosis

Questions about somatosis

What does somatosis mean?
Somatosis means the manifestation of severe, unexpressed psychological distress or trauma directly through the body (soma) in the absence of a clear organic disease.
What part of speech is somatosis?
Somatosis is a noun.

Words near somatosis in the dictionary

  1. somatosensorimotor
  2. somatosensors
  3. somatosensory
  4. somatosensory amplification
  5. somatosensory cortex
  6. somatosis
  7. somatosound
  8. somatosounds
  9. somatospatial
  10. somatosplanchnic
  11. somatostain

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