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somatic, a. and n.|səʊˈmætɪk|
[ad. Gr. σωµατικός, f. σῶµα, σώµατ- body. So F. somatique.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the (or a) body; bodily, corporeal, physical.
1775Ash, Somatic, corporeal, belonging to a body. 1816Bentham Chrestomathia Wks. 1843 VIII. 187 Somatic, or Somatological fictitious entities. 1859Sat. Rev. 10 Dec. 709/1 Those in which somatic and psychical co-efficients are manifestly intermingled. 1884Blackmore Tommy Upmore I. iii. 23 Variant motions and emotions, both somatic and psychical.
b. Anat. and Phys. of parts of the body.
1859Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 26 The diverticulum of the somatic cavity becomes pyriform. 1861J. R. Greene Man. Anim. Kingd., Cœlent. 6 The nutritive, or somatic, fluid occupying the general cavity of the body. 1881Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Jan. 73 The two layers of the mesoblast, somatic and splanchnic. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 371 The termination of the somatic nerves derived from the segment of the cord.
c. spec. Pertaining to the soma in contrast to the germ.
1888Nature 14 June 156/2 In the Metazoa, the germ⁓cells, instead of remaining single, give rise to the vast number of somatic cells which compose the adult structure. 1896Mrs. Romanes Life & Lett. Romanes 35 It is demonstrated that the somatic tissues of the scion have exercised an effect on the germinal elements of the stock.
2. Affecting the body.
1835–6J. A. Symonds in Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 791 note, The writer is indebted to..Dr. Prichard for the suggestion of somatic [instead of systemic],..but he has not had the courage to introduce it into the text. 1839–47Carpenter Ibid. III. 757/2 Molecular death is not always an immediate consequence of somatic death. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 425 Hypnotism could do nothing in somatic affections.
B. n. pl. Somatology.
1816Bentham Chrestomathia Wks. 1843 VIII. 87 This branch of Art and Science is entitled to the appellation of Coenoscopic Anthropurgics, or Somatics. 1861Sat. Rev. 15 June 621 The Germans retort by accusing their adversaries..of ‘mechanical, soulless somatics (somatik)’.
So soˈmatical a., ‘corporeal, bodily, substantial’ (Bailey, 1727); soˈmatically adv.
1847tr. Feuchtersleben's Med. Psychol. 219 Somatically they [i.e. certain excitements] act at the expense of the brain. 1902Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 421 But while the Seri Indians are so well developed somatically,..they have been no less notorious..for unparalleled laziness. |