somatic adj 1: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn: {bodily}, {corporal}, {corporeal}, {somatic}]
Somatic \So*mat"ic\ (s[-o]*m[a^]t"[i^]k), a. [Gr. swmatiko`s, fr. sw^ma the body.] 1. Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo. [1913 Webster] {Somatic death}. See the Note under {Death}, n., 1. [1913 Webster]