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ぶんかいそんしょうこうぐん 文化依存症候群
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1. culture-bound syndrome​Medicine
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2. Culture-bound syndrome​In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome or folk illness' is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. There are no objective biochemical or structural alterations of body organs or functions, and the disease is not recognized in other cultures.
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