Somatic

Definition: Somatic

Somatic

Adjective

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".

Date "somatic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Specialty Definition: Somatic

Domain	Definition
Biology & Biotechnology	Applied to the non-sexual tissues, growth and reproduction of plants, e. g. to stems in contrast to stamens, to rooting versus seed development, and to propagation not involving the union of gametes(as in budding, cuttings, layers and grafts)in contrast to(sexual)reproduction by seed. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	1. pertaining to or characteristic of the soma or body. 2. pertaining to the body wall in contrast to the viscera. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Somatic

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Somatic means to refer to the body. From the Greek word Somatikos, meaning body.

It also can mean to refer to the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary movement.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Somatic."

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Synonyms: Somatic

Synonyms: bodily (adj), corporal (adj), corporeal (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Somatic

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
MATERIALITY	Adjective: material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic, somatoscopic; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Somatic

English words defined with "somatic": acetylcholine, anorexia nervosa, anxiety neurosis ♦ bodily ♦ conversion disorder, conversion hysteria, conversion reaction, corporal, corporeal ♦ diploid ♦ karyotype ♦ pain, painful sensation, polysomy, pressure, pressure sensation, prickling, psychosomatic disorder ♦ serum albumin, Somatical ♦ temperature, tingle, tingling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "somatic": Adolescent Medicine ♦ Cell Fusion, Cloning, Organism, Cranial Nerves ♦ embryogenesis ♦ Ganglia, Sensory, Genes, T-Cell Receptor, Germ-Line Mutation ♦ H-Y Antigen ♦ Kinetofragminophorea ♦ nuclear transfer technique, nuclear transfer technology ♦ Oligohymenophorea ♦ Prefrontal Cortex ♦ Sister Chromatid Exchange, somatic cell mutation, somatic mutation, somatic mutations ♦ Telomerase, Trichostomatina. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Somatic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (somatic).

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Modern Usage: Somatic

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first. (The Exorcist; writing credit: William Peter Blatty)
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Commercial Usage: Somatic

Domain	Title
Books	How Yoga Works: Introduction to Somatic Yoga (reference) Selected Chinese Historic Records of Somatic Science (reference) Treatment of Functional Somatic Symptoms (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Somatic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		These changes may produce a variety of somatic complaints and sleep disturbances. (references)
		These functions are regulated by the central nervous system through autonomic and somatic nerves. (references)
		ECT and lithium appear to be equally effective for acute mania, and either is superior to hospitalization without somatic therapy. (references)
Economic History	Norway	There are currently 5 regional and 70 central/local somatic hospitals in Norway. (references)
	Norway	The Government has recently announced plans that the state will take over all the regional and central/local somatic hospitals in Norway by the end of 2001. This means that all public hospitals will be organized as wholly owned government business units under the management of five regional state health care units. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Somatic

"Somatic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Somatic" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.31%	58	44,427
Noun (proper)	1.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	59	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Somatic

Expressions using "somatic": Confluent somatic therapy ♦ Gestalt Somatic method ♦ Psychiatric Somatic Therapies ♦ somatic cell ♦ somatic cell mutation ♦ somatic cells ♦ somatic chromosome ♦ somatic death ♦ somatic delusion ♦ Somatic Dialogue ♦ Somatic effect ♦ somatic effects ♦ somatic effects of radiation ♦ somatic embryo ♦ Somatic emotional therapy ♦ somatic mutation ♦ somatic mutations ♦ somatic sensation ♦ somatic sense ♦ somatic sensory system ♦ Somatic therapy. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "somatic": extra-somatic.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Somatic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
somatic	20	disorder somatic	4
cell somatic	16	experiencing somatic	4
somatic nervous system	13	mutation somatic	4
cell nuclear somatic transfer	8	complaint somatic	4
somatic therapy	7	pain somatic	3
embryogenesis somatic	7	somatic system	2
somatic dysfunction	6	somatic response	2
somatic gene therapy	6	somatic symptom	2
cell count somatic	5	narcissist somatic	2
somatic healing	5	academy arts healing somatic	2
somatic psychology	5	acadamy arts healing somatic	2
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Modern Translation: Somatic

Language		Translations for "somatic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏جسدي (bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, glandule, material, physical, sensual). (various references)

Bulgarian		соматичен, телесен (bodily, carnal, corporeal, fleshly, material, physical). (various references)

Chinese		�"壁 (Somatical). (various references)

Danish		somatisk (asexual, vegetative). (various references)

Dutch		somatisch. (various references)

Finnish		somaattinen (asexual, vegetative), vegetatiivinen (asexual, vegetative), kasvullinen (asexual, vegetative). (various references)

French		somatique. (various references)

German		somatisch (asexual, vegetative). (various references)

Greek		σωματικόσ (able bodied, bodily, constitutional, corporeal, physical). (various references)

Hungarian		fizikai (bodily, corporeal, material, physical, physical aspects). (various references)

Italian		somatico. (various references)

Korean		� 체 (Corpora, Corpus, Somatical). (various references)

Pig Latin		omaticsay

Portuguese		somático. (various references)

Romanian		somatic. (various references)

Russian		соматический (bodily, corporeal), телесный (bodily, corporeal, flesh-colored, fleshly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		somatski. (various references)

Spanish		somático. (various references)

Swedish		somatisk (vegetative). (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับร่างกาย (bodily). (various references)

Turkish		vücut (body, corporality, flesh, form, organism, person, personal, system), fiziksel (physical), bedensel (bodily, carnal, Corporal, corporeal, fleshly, gestic, material, organic, physical, sensual). (various references)

Ukrainian		соматичний, тілесний (bodily, carnal, corporeal, fleshly, physical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Somatic

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	somatikos. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Somatic

Derivations
	Words beginning with "somatic": somatically. (additional references)
	Words ending with "somatic": metasomatic, psychosomatic. (additional references)
	Words containing "somatic": psychosomatically, psychosomatics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Somatic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asomatos, domatic, holmatic, Isamatec, nomatic, potamic, psammitic, romitic, semactic, semamtic, sematic, semotic, siematic, somantic, somat, somata, somati, somaticv, someti, somity, symatic, zoonotic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Somatic"

Words rhyming with "somatic" (pronounced 'So*mat"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Somatic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: atomics, osmatic.
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: atomic, coatis, mascot, mastic, misact, mosaic, scotia, sitcom.
	-2 letters: ascot, atoms, coast, coati, coats, comas, costa, iotas, maist, micas, moats, moist, omits, osmic, ostia, stoai, stoic, stoma, tacos, tamis.
	-3 letters: acts, aims, aits, amis, asci, atom, cams, cast, cats, ciao, cist, coat, coma, cost, cots, iota, macs, mast, mats, mica, miso, mist, moas.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: acrotism, apomicts, coadmits, comatiks, iotacism, massicot, monastic, stomatic.
	+2 letters: aconitums, acrotisms, amoristic, aromatics, atomistic, autoecism, bombastic, coinmates, dogmatics, encomiast, impactors, iotacisms, macintosh, masochist, massicots, maxicoats, mislocate, monastics, mosaicist, mustachio, onomastic, ostracism, romantics, simpatico, stomachic, subatomic.
	+3 letters: actomyosin, aposematic, astronomic, asymptotic, autoecisms, automatics, cacomistle, calamitous, camorrista, camorristi, catabolism, chemotaxis, chromatics, chromatids, chromatins, collimates, committals, complaints, costmaries, cremations, dichromats, encomiasts, hemostatic, impactions, isogametic, mackintosh, manticores, masochists, masticator, mastodonic, microstate, microwatts, miscaption, miscatalog, mislocated, mislocates, monarchist, moralistic, morticians, mosaicists, moustachio, mustachios, onomastics, ostracisms, pictograms, postatomic, postimpact, sanctimony, stomachics, stomaching.
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