SOMATIC: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | sow'matik
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| Matching Terms: | | somatic cell, somatic cell gene therapy, Somatic cell genetic mutation, Somatic Cells, somatic chromosome, somatic delusion, Somatic Mutations, somatic neuropathy, somatic sensation, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, Somatical, Somatics, Somatist
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bodily, corporal, corporeal, physical |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| Glossary |
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| | Definition: | | a term that refers to the body. |
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