Somatic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Somatic \So*mat"ic\ (s[-o]*m[a^]t"[i^]k), a. [Gr. swmatiko`s,
     fr. sw^ma the body.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as,
        somatic death; somatic changes.
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     2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric;
        parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an
        embryo.
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     {Somatic death}. See the Note under {Death}, n., 1.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  somatic
       adj : affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the
             mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect";
             "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic
             illness" [syn: {bodily}, {corporal}, {corporeal}]