somatic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: so=mat=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

somatic, a. [Gr. swmatiko`s, fr. sw^ma the body.].

•  Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.  [1913 Webster]

Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

somatic, adj. of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

Idiom

somatic cell any cell of a living organism except the reproductive cells.

Derivative

somatically adv.

Etymology

Gk somatikos (as SOMA(1))

ROGET THESAURUS

somatic

Materiality

N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.