Somatic

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "And this is the term somatic cell, which means a body cell."
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    physical  
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