somatic - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'somatic' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Somatic

[ a.]

- Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
- Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.

Meaning of 'somatic' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . somatic

[ s]

Meaning (1):
- affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

Example in sentence:

a corporal defect;
a somatic symptom or somatic illness;
bodily needs;
corporeal suffering

Nearby Words:

soma somaj somal somali somatical somatics somatist somatocyst somatology somatome

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Psychosomatic
The word psychosomatic from the Greek words psyche (mind) and soma (body); relating to psychological disorders in which emotional stress produces physiological
Somatic division
Somatic division, which the part of the peripheral nervous system that specializes in the control of voluntary movements and the

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