soma

{ } n. 1. (Ethnol.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. of or pertaining to Somalia or to the inhabitants of Somalia. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo. [ 1913 Webster ]

Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + ky`stis a bladder. ] (Zool.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + -logy. ] 1. The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A treatise on the human body; anatomy. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) The science which treats of anatomy and physiology, apart from psychology. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Anthropol.) The consideration of the physical characters of races and classes of men and of mankind in general. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, body + te`mnein to cut. ] (Anat. & Zool.) See Somite. [ 1913 Webster ]