Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

psychomedicine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: psy-chome-dicine
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.

Uncountable

noun

The use of psychoactive drugs.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"It is also called the age of new human sciences and life sciences including human biology, anthropology, cultural-anthropology, psychology and psychomedicine."

Etymology

From psycho- + medicine.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: psycho

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

psychomedical

Questions

What does psychomedicine mean?: Any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.
Where does psychomedicine come from?: From psycho- + medicine.

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