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physiomental en · ADJ

Etymology

From physio- + mental.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to both the body and the mind.
   • Also, the manifestation of the menopausic syndrome is subjectively and objectively noted, dependent upon the pre-existing physiomental relationship. 1942, The Medical World:
   • Shaftesbury's moral sense has a purely physical basis: "Basically his approach implies a physiomental continuum since there is no sharp distinction made between physiological and psychological drives. 1996, Thomas J. Pfister, Sensibility: the social construction of eighteenth-century reality:
   • Speed-up and physiomental, economic, or social decline -- alone or together -- can also construct the feeling called nostalgia quite early in the life course. 2004, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Aged by Culture, →ISBN, page 31:
   • Thereafter, environment makes impressions on the physiomental organism, and in time comes knowledge and consciousness. 1894, The Open Court - Volumes 8-9, page 4224:
   • It is probably easier to reveal the genesis of the physiomental symptoms in which a substitution mechanism is the case, as in the tics, than when the issue is a conversion mechanism, as in the physical symptoms of a hysteric complex. 1914, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 85, page 556:
2. Pertaining to a physical object or action that acts as a cognitive or emotional trigger.
   • The physiomental action through which ritualism seeks to operate is known as sa sk r (literally 'mental impression'). 2017, Alison Arnold, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia:, →ISBN:
   • Common physiomental devices include a golden key (that doesn't open anything—its only use is to meditate upon) or a piece of fabric, equipment part or some other item that is part of what you want to think about. 2012, Barry Darryl Morris, Complex Simplicity: Uncommon Sense, →ISBN, page 61:
3. Pertaining to the biological determinants of emotion or cognition.
   • The occasional criminal who constitutes the majority of lawbreakers and is the product of family and social milieu more than of abnormal personal physiomental conditions. 2004, Leonard Glick, Criminology, →ISBN, page 72:
   • There is a bond of union, then, between the living organisms of animals and plants; but how the physiorganic forces of attraction and repulsion merge into the physioinstinctual forces of sensation, and these again into the emotional forces of attraction and repulsion, we cannot possibly determine ; and we are still more blind, if possible, with regard to the connection of the physiomental forces of human understanding and intelligence, with all the other kinds of forces. 1864, Hugh Doherty, Organic Philosophy; Or, Manʼs True Place in Nature:
   • Aging with its physiomental deterioration and changes in nutritional status... 1990, Robert W. Schrier, Geriatric Medicine, page 464:

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