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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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Somatic : Somatic: 1. Relating to the body. a. As distinguished from the mind (the psyche). b. As distinguished from the gonads.
Based on the Greek word somatikos meaning body.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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