somatic symptom disorder

English

Noun

somatic symptom disorder (countable and uncountable, plural somatic symptom disorders)

1. (pathology) Extreme anxiety concerning physical symptoms.

   Coordinate term: illness anxiety disorder

2. (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

• German: Somatoforme Störung