So*mat"ic (s&osl;*măt"&ibreve;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.
2.
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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