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Somatic adj.

Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.

Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.

Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.

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Etymology of 'Somatic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... quite similar phenomena have been observed in a large number of animals, even among crustaceans. As a result of our own observations the only thing we feel at liberty to state with real confidence is that catalepsy is presumably a phenomenon mental in origin rather than somatic, because it always occurs in conditions which show other evidence ...

— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch

... of their pigmented ancestors. Now we know, from the numerous experiments in heredity which have resulted since the rediscovery of Mendel's principles, that an individual may carry a character in one of two conditions. It may be carried as a somatic character, when it will be visible in the body tissues, or it may be carried as a gametic character, and its presence can only then be detected in subsequent generations, by adequately ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia