somatic
US/səˈmætɪk/
somatic adjective: part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
Adjective
somatic (not comparable)
- 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 1, page 116
- Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.
- a somatic epitype
- Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
- the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo
somatic meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Arabic
somatic in Tamil
- உடலுக்குரிய, உடலம், உடலியலுக்குரிய, மெய்யிய
somatic in Kannada
- ದೈಹಿಕ, ಶಾರೀರಿಕ, ಭೌತ
somatic in Arabic
- relating to the body of an organism
- جَسَدِيّ jasadiyy
Examples of somatic in a sentence
- Psychiatric disorder is less often associated with somatic impairment, and rôle-playing is the more significant part.
- We named this genetic disorder the VEXAS syndrome, which is caused by myeloid-restricted somatic missense mutations in UBA1.
- Somatic exocytosis of serotonin is a multistep and multiregulated process.
Origin of somatic
From Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós, “bodily”), σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Words formed from somatic
- 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
- sociosomatic
- somaesthetics
- somatical
- somatically
- somatic cell
- somaticism
- somaticize
- somatic nervous system
- somatic sensory cortex
- somatic symptom disorder
- somatize
- somesthesis
- splenosomatic
- telesomatic
- tubulosomatic
- viscerosomatic
Phrases with somatic
Questions about somatic
- What does somatic mean?
- Somatic means part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
- What is somatic in Tamil?
- Somatic in Tamil is உடலுக்குரிய, உடலம், உடலியலுக்குரிய. See Somatic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is somatic?
- Somatic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce somatic?
- Somatic is pronounced /səˈmætɪk/ (US).
Words near somatic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: somatic (page history and authors); somatic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somatic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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