soma

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What are you feeling The drug devours my body, but my mind is in the Presence of God One day, when you have learned all you can from the Hashishiyya, I will teach you the secret of the most powerful drug of all--soma, the drug that is made by the mind and does not harm the body at all No head for wine?

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  1. noun The entire body of an organism, exclusive of the germ cells.
  2. noun See cell body.
  3. noun The body of an individual as contrasted with the mind or psyche.
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  • Only here, in real life, one day everyone will wake up from their soma-induced dazes in a Socialist nation, irreversibly taken from them bit by bit by liberal Democrats as ignorance, immediate gratification and carnal obsession slowly prevailed over the temporarily silenced minority. —  Blue Grass, Red State
  • It truly is a utopia, sans soma-but with girls this cute and willing, we can turn a blind eye just like Lady Justice. —  Fleshbot
  • In other words, shows such as "The Hills After Show" are giant distractions - like "soma" from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." —  UCLA Stories
  • (IPSPs) located on or near the soma was observed in the 3-channel model cell subjected to random synaptic bombardment. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The entire soma (nucleus only for CLK) was manually circled in the single confocal section of maximum diameter and digitally quantified using ImageJ (NIH). —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. New Latin sōma, from Greek, body; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Sanskrit somaḥ; akin to sunoti, he presses.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek σῶμα, the body, a dead body, body as opposed to spirit, material substance, mass, etc., also a person, body, human being.
  2. from Sanskrit soma (= Zend haoma), juice, from √ su, press out. Cf. Gr, ὀπός, juice, sap (see opium), Latin sucus, succus, juice (see succulent).
 

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