Psychomedicine
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos. rare, uncountable
"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."
- 2 The use of psychoactive drugs. uncountable
"It is also called the age of new human sciences and life sciences including human biology, anthropology, cultural-anthropology, psychology and psychomedicine."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From psycho- + medicine.
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