Hypertext Webster Gateway: "somatic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Somatic \So*mat"ic\, 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.
2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric;
parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an
embryo.
{Somatic death}. See the Note under {Death}, n., 1.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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