单词 | psychoneuroimmunology |
释义 | psychoneuroimmunologyn. A branch of science concerned with the relationships between the mind and emotions, the nervous system, and the immune system, and hence susceptibility to disease; the relationships themselves. ΚΠ 1980 Science 25 July 479/3 As John Lacey of the Fels Research Institute said at a recent meeting.., ‘psychoneuroimmunology could never have emerged from the field of immunology’. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Apr. 16/3 ‘It's important that you feel glamorous,’ she said, citing a little known principle of psychoneuroimmunology. 2003 S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People (2004) vii. 201 Psychoneuroimmunology..is based on the reasonable assumption that the three great control networks of the body—the immune, the nervous and the endocrine (hormonal) systems—are all interlinked. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1980 |
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