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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós, “bodily”), σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /səˈmætɪk/, [səˈmæɾɪk]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
somatic (not comparable)
- Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
- Antonyms: psychological, mental
- 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 116:
- The somatic and botanical metaphors in this passage were commonplace in the 1700s.
- Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.
- a somatic epitype
- Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
- the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo
Derived terms
- axosomatic
- cephalosomatic
- dendritosomatic
- dendrosomatic
- endosomatic
- exosomatic
- extrasomatic
- extra-somatic
- gonadosomatic
- hepatosomatic
- intersomatic
- intestosomatic
- intrasomatic
- leptosomatic
- liposomatic
- metasomatite
- monosomatic
- neurosomatic
- nonsomatic
- normosomatic
- organosomatic
- orthosomatic
- polysomatic
- psychosomatic
- sociosomatic
- somaesthetics
- somatical
- somatically
- somatic cell
- somaticism
- somaticize
- somatic nervous system
- somatic sensory cortex
- somatic symptom disorder
- somatize
- splenosomatic
- telesomatic
- tubulosomatic
- viscerosomatic
Related terms
Translations
relating to the body of an organism — see also bodily
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Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
somatic m or n (feminine singular somatică, masculine plural somatici, feminine/neuter plural somatice)
Declension
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