somatic

Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.

Adjective

  1. Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
    • The somatic and botanical metaphors in this passage were commonplace in the 1700s. - 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number...
  2. Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.
    • a somatic epitype
  3. Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
    • the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo

Origin

From Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós, “bodily”), σῶμα (sôma, “body”).

Related

somatoplasm

Derived

axosomatic cephalosomatic dendritosomatic dendrosomatic endosomatic exosomatic extra-somatic extrasomatic gonadosomatic hepatosomatic intersomatic intestosomatic intrasomatic leptosomatic liposomatic metasomatite monosomatic neurosomatic nonsomatic normosomatic organosomatic orthosomatic polysomatic psychosomatic