Meaning of SOMATIC CELL

Pronunciation:			sow'matik sel
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells
	See Also:		adipose cell, blood cell, blood corpuscle, bone cell, cell, corpuscle, epithelial cell, fat cell, glial cell, hybridoma, labrocyte, mast cell, mastocyte, muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre, neoplastic cell, nerve cell, neurogliacyte, neuroglial cell, neuron, phagocyte, scavenger cell, Schwann cell, skin cell, stem cell, target cell, visual cell
Biology Dictionary
	Definition:		Any cell in the body except gametes and their precursors.
Glossary
	Definition:		Any nongerm cell that composes the body of an organism and which possesses a set of multiploid chromosomes (diploid in most organisms). (See Gamete, Somatic cell gene therapy) Any cell in the body except gametes and their precursors.