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- adjective Having both
physical andmental aspects; involving both thebody and themind ;psychosomatic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Joseph Black; 26his physiological theories of human and animal health and behaviour as largely dependent on levels of physico-mental stimulation derive from the main sources of his own Edinburgh medical training,
Introduction 2006
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As a further consequence, when we wish, by a metaphysical effort, to attach the consciousness to a material state of the brain and to establish a link between the two events, it will be found that we wrongly hook one physico-mental phenomenon on to another.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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It is even the most ancient of all, which simply proves that amongst the different explanations given of our double physico-mental nature, this doctrine is the easiest to understand.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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What is compared are the two phenomena, which are both mixed and are physico-mental -- physical, through the object to which they are applied, mental, through the act of cognition they imply.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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Analogous calculations — if such physico-mental operations can properly be so called — are made in the use of other missiles; for no projectile flies in a right line to its mark.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 01 (historical) 1874
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Analogous calculations -- if such physico-mental operations can property be so called -- are made in the use of other missiles; for no projectile flies in a right line to its mark.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841
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