psychoimmunologyn.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˌɪmjᵿˈnɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˌɪmjəˈnɑlədʒi/ The branch of medicine concerned with the relationship between psychological states or processes and the functioning of the immune system. Cf. psychoneuroimmunology n.
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the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > immunology > branches of
immunochemistry1907
immunogenetics1947
immunohaematology1948
immunohistochemistry1963
radioimmunology1967
psychoimmunology1982
1982 Comprehensive Psychiatry 23 10 One line of such research, labeled psychoimmunology, has explored the effects of various kinds of stressors on the body's defenses against cancer, infection, or other diseases.
1994 Economist 10 Dec. 117/3 Psychoimmunology..studies the relationship between the brain and the immune system, or more broadly between mind and health.
2001 Q. Rev. Biol. 76 531/1 Practitioners of psychoimmunology may sometimes overstep the bounds of knowledge to the detriment as well as the benefit of patients.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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