somatic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric;
      parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an
      embryo.
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   {Somatic death}. See the Note under {Death}, n., 1.
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