medical Definition of somatize
somatized
or chiefly British somatised;
somatizing
or chiefly British somatising
transitive verb
:to express (as psychological conflicts) through somatic symptoms
- somatized anxieties
intransitive 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
