Somatism
noun, Psychiatry.
1.
a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.
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- Somato-
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somatochrome so·mat·o·chrome (sō-māt’ə-krōm’, sō’mə-tə-) n. A nerve cell in which there is an abundance of cytoplasm completely surrounding the nucleus.
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adjective 1. characterized by symptoms suggesting a physical disorder but for which there are no demonstrable organic findings or known physiological mechanisms.