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Medical Definition of somatize
somatized
or chiefly Britishsomatised
;somatizing
or chiefly Britishsomatising
transitive verb
: to express (as psychological conflicts) through somatic symptoms somatized anxietiesintransitive verb
: to express psychological conflicts through somatic symptoms some people somatize — they have all kinds of body aches and pains that their doctors can't explain—Roger Callahan et al
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