somatization disorder
1somatization disorder — n a somatoform disorder characterized by multiple and recurring physical complaints for which the patient has sought medical treatment over several years without any organic or physiological basis for the symptoms being found * * * a psychiatric… …
2Somatization disorder — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 1645 ICD10 = ICD10|F|45|0|f|40 ICD9 = ICD9|300.81 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = 000955 eMedicineSubj = ped eMedicineTopic = 3015 MeshID = D013001Somatization disorder (also Briquet s disorder… …
3somatization disorder — a psychiatric disorder characterized by multiple recurrent changing physical symptoms in the absence of physical disorders that could explain them. The disorder is chronic and is often accompanied by depression and anxiety. It can disrupt… …
4somatization disorder — a mental illness, usually beginning before age 20, characterized by multiple physical complaints for which no physical causes can be found and often leading to unnecessary treatment or surgery and to severe disability. Also called Briquet s… …
5somatization disorder — a mental illness, usually beginning before age 20, characterized by multiple physical complaints for which no physical causes can be found and often leading to unnecessary treatment or surgery and to severe disability. Also called Briquet s… …
6Somatization — is currently defined as a tendency to experience and communicate somatic distress in response to psychosocial stress and to seek medical help for it . [cite journal |author=Lipowski ZJ |title=Somatization: the concept and its clinical application …
7Somatization — The process by which psychologic distress is expressed as physical symptoms. Somatization is an unconscious process. In somatization, mental experiences or states are converted to bodily symptoms. A tension headache is an example: tension is… …
8disorder — A disturbance of function, structure, or both, resulting from a genetic or embryonic failure in development or from exogenous factors such as poison, trauma, or disease. adjustmen …
9Hysteria-Psychosomatic-Somatization — In 1802, Paris psychiatrist Jean Baptiste Louyer Villermay (1775–1837), in an essay differentiating hypochondria from hysteria, described a young female patient, uncertain about romance, who, at the sight of her loved one fainted, uttering… …
10Somatoform disorder — (also known as Briquet s syndrome) is characterized by physical symptoms that mimic disease or injury for which there is no identifiable physical cause [Somatoform Disorders [http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/somatoform disorders/intro.htm] ] or… …
