SOMATIC

bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

somatic (not comparable)

Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.

Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.

Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.

Anagrams

• atomics, osmatic

Source: Wiktionary


So*mat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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