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 ]