Having a psychological origin or cause rather than a physical one.
心因性的，精神起因的
psychogenic ill health
心因性健康恶化。
Example sentencesExamples
Patients who incur injuries during blackouts, including tongue biting, tend to have an organic rather than psychogenic cause for their loss of consciousness.
This factor supports the idea that an extreme narcissism is a specific psychogenic factor here.
When higher rates of ‘psychiatric’ findings have been found for MCS Syndrome, researchers mainly attributed this to either psychiatric traits or psychogenic origins of illness.
Hormone therapy will bring about physical and perhaps psychogenic changes.
Early reports of an association between autism and epilepsy helped implicate biological rather than mere psychogenic factors in the etiology of autism.
Synonyms
emotional, spiritual, inner
Definition of psychogenic in US English:
psychogenic
adjectiveˌsīkōˈjenik
Having a psychological origin or cause rather than a physical one.
心因性的，精神起因的
psychogenic ill health
心因性健康恶化。
Example sentencesExamples
This factor supports the idea that an extreme narcissism is a specific psychogenic factor here.
Hormone therapy will bring about physical and perhaps psychogenic changes.
When higher rates of ‘psychiatric’ findings have been found for MCS Syndrome, researchers mainly attributed this to either psychiatric traits or psychogenic origins of illness.
Patients who incur injuries during blackouts, including tongue biting, tend to have an organic rather than psychogenic cause for their loss of consciousness.
Early reports of an association between autism and epilepsy helped implicate biological rather than mere psychogenic factors in the etiology of autism.