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Definition of somatic in English: somaticadjective səˈmatɪksəˈmædɪk 1Relating to the body, especially as distinct from the mind. patients completed a questionnaire about their somatic and psychological symptoms Example sentencesExamples - As many as one in five new consultations in primary care are for somatic symptoms for which no specific cause can be found.
- Future work may identify explicit factors mediating the links between somatic and psychological symptoms.
- Such patients' insistence that the physician pursue somatic symptoms until a medical diagnosis is obtained can be significantly frustrating.
- Do patients with unexplained physical symptoms pressurise general practitioners for somatic treatment?
- In the present study, we examined gender differences in somatic symptoms at a mind/body outpatient clinic.
Synonyms worldly, temporal, secular, mortal, human, mundane, material, non-spiritual, materialistic - 1.1Biology Relating to the soma.
Example sentencesExamples - Heterotrophic organisms must acquire nutrients to maintain somatic and gametic function.
- From this screen, 13 wpch mutants were recovered with reduced somatic mosaicism and low germline reversion rates.
- Transgenic mouse modelling has provided a new approach to study the various steps involved in spontaneous and induced mutagenesis in rodent somatic and germline tissues in vivo.
- Interspecific heteroplasmic mice were also produced by microinjection of somatic mitochondria into pronucleus-stage embryos.
- TP5 and TP6 do not repress P-element activity in somatic cells, nor do they alter the somatic or germ-line phenotypes of P-insertion alleles.
Derivatives adverb Sometimes those communications and exchanges take place somatically, occurring at levels upon which we do not or cannot reflect. Example sentencesExamples - These mutations were not present in normal cells, indicating that they arose somatically.
- In this way, we confirmed that epigenetic and second-site suppression of hcf 106 could be separated somatically.
- This comprises length alterations of oligonucleotide repeat sequences that occur somatically in human tumours.
- This pattern holds for both germline and somatically expressed genes.
Origin Late 18th century: from Greek sōmatikos, from sōma 'body'. Rhymes achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic Definition of somatic in US English: somaticadjectivesəˈmædɪksəˈmadik 1Relating to the body, especially as distinct from the mind. patients completed a questionnaire about their somatic and psychological symptoms Example sentencesExamples - In the present study, we examined gender differences in somatic symptoms at a mind/body outpatient clinic.
- As many as one in five new consultations in primary care are for somatic symptoms for which no specific cause can be found.
- Such patients' insistence that the physician pursue somatic symptoms until a medical diagnosis is obtained can be significantly frustrating.
- Future work may identify explicit factors mediating the links between somatic and psychological symptoms.
- Do patients with unexplained physical symptoms pressurise general practitioners for somatic treatment?
Synonyms worldly, temporal, secular, mortal, human, mundane, material, non-spiritual, materialistic - 1.1Biology Relating to the soma.
Example sentencesExamples - TP5 and TP6 do not repress P-element activity in somatic cells, nor do they alter the somatic or germ-line phenotypes of P-insertion alleles.
- Transgenic mouse modelling has provided a new approach to study the various steps involved in spontaneous and induced mutagenesis in rodent somatic and germline tissues in vivo.
- Heterotrophic organisms must acquire nutrients to maintain somatic and gametic function.
- From this screen, 13 wpch mutants were recovered with reduced somatic mosaicism and low germline reversion rates.
- Interspecific heteroplasmic mice were also produced by microinjection of somatic mitochondria into pronucleus-stage embryos.
Origin Late 18th century: from Greek sōmatikos, from sōma ‘body’. |