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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or affecting the body, especially as distinguished from a body part, the mind, or the environment; corporeal or physical. See Synonyms at bodily.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the wall of the body cavity, especially as distinguished from the head, limbs, or viscera.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the portion of the vertebrate nervous system that regulates voluntary movement.
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  • It is generally considered ethical and appropriate to conduct somatic-cell gene therapy, meaning that there's nothing wrong with altering the genetic make-up of one of your liver cells or skin cells or even brain cells. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • DNA of normal (somatic) cells, and are therefore known as haploids. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Many scientists had assumed that metastatic ability is primarily determined by somatic, or non-inherited, gene mutations in tumor tissue. —  RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News
  • Is his opposition solely based upon the health risks that cloning techniques, such as somatic cell nuclear transfer, may impose upon children born as a result of this novel technology? —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Axo-somatic terminals are scarce and mainly contain flat and pleomorphic vesicles, glycine and sometimes GABA (inhibitory). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. French somatique, from Greek sōmatikos, from sōma, sōmat-, body; see soma1.

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  1. = French somatique, from Greek σωματικός, pertaining to the body, bodily, from σῶμα, the body: see soma.
 

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