Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affecting the body, especially as distinguished from a body part, the mind, or the environment; corporeal or physical.
- adjective Of or relating to the wall of the body cavity, especially as distinguished from the head, limbs, or viscera.
- adjective Of or relating to the portion of the vertebrate nervous system that regulates voluntary movement.
- adjective Of or relating to a somatic cell or the somatoplasm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the body or material organism, as distinguished from the soul, spirit, or mind; physical; corporeal; bodily.
- Of or pertaining to the soma: as, the longitudinal somatic axis lies in the meson.
- Of or pertaining to the cavity or interior hollow of the body of an animal, and especially to the body-walls of such cavity; parietal, as distinguished from
visceral or splanchnic; cœlomatic; somatopleural. - Pertaining to mass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
- adjective See the Note under
Death , n., 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Part of, or relating to the
body of anorganism . - adjective Of or relating to the wall of the body;
somatopleuric ;parietal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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And this is the term somatic cell, which means a body cell.
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Some scientists now use the term somatic stem cell instead of adult stem cell.
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Some scientists now use the term somatic stem cell instead of adult stem cell.
WN.com - Articles related to Hip hope from stem cell technique 2010
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Some scientists now use the term somatic stem cell instead of adult stem cell.
WN.com - Articles related to Hip hope from stem cell technique 2010
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Gene manipulation, as it's being performed now, is gene manipulation of what we call somatic cells.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Cancer - January 2, 2000 2000
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With her expertise in somatic healing, she has developed a powerful healing touch.
Tommy Rosen: The 33 Yoga Classes You Have to Hit If You Find Yourself in West L.A. Tommy Rosen 2010
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With her expertise in somatic healing, she has developed a powerful healing touch.
Tommy Rosen: The 33 Yoga Classes You Have to Hit If You Find Yourself in West L.A. Tommy Rosen 2010
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With her expertise in somatic healing, she has developed a powerful healing touch.
Tommy Rosen: The 33 Yoga Classes You Have to Hit If You Find Yourself in West L.A. Tommy Rosen 2010
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With her expertise in somatic healing, she has developed a powerful healing touch.
Tommy Rosen: The 33 Yoga Classes You Have to Hit If You Find Yourself in West L.A. Tommy Rosen 2010
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With her expertise in somatic healing, she has developed a powerful healing touch.
Tommy Rosen: The 33 Yoga Classes You Have to Hit If You Find Yourself in West L.A. Tommy Rosen 2010
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