somatic symptom disorder
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English
Noun
somatic symptom disorder (countable and uncountable, plural somatic symptom disorders)
- (pathology) Extreme anxiety concerning physical symptoms.
- Coordinate term: illness anxiety disorder
- (psychology, psychiatry) 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.
- Synonym: (former name) somatoform disorder
Translations
Physical symptoms that cannot be explained by a general medical condition
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