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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit;
- Example: "bodily needs"
- Example: "a corporal defect"
- Example: "corporeal suffering"
- Example: "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"
[syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Somatic \So*mat"ic\ (s[-o]*m[a^]t"[i^]k), 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.
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   Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

somatic
    adj 1: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the
           mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect";
           "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic
           illness" [syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal,
           somatic]