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Psychalgia

psychalgia

1. Distress attending a mental effort, noted especially in melancholia.

Synonym: algopsychalia, mind pain, phrenalgia, psychalgalia, soul pain.

Synonym: psychogenic pain.

Origin: psych-_ G. Algos, pain


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