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somatic
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]
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.For further exploring for "somatic" in Webster Dictionary Online