Crossword clues for somatic
somatic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Somatic \So*mat"ic\ (s[-o]*m[a^]t"[i^]k), a. [Gr. swmatiko`s, fr. sw^ma the body.]
Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to the body" (as distinct from the soul, spirit, or mind), 1775, from French somatique and directly from Greek somatikos "of the body," from soma (genitive somatos) "the body" (see somato-).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Part of, or relating to the body of an organism. 2 Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The term somatic is often used in biology to refer to the cells of the body in contrast to the germ line cells which usually give rise to the gametes ( ovum or sperm). These somatic cells are diploid containing two copies of each chromosome, whereas the germ cells are haploid as they only contain one copy of each chromosome. Although under normal circumstances all somatic cells in an organism contain identical DNA, they develop a variety of tissue-specific characteristics. This process is called differentiation, through epigenetic and regulatory alterations. The grouping of like cells and tissues creates the foundation for organs.
Somatic mutations are changes to the genetics of a multicellular organism which are not passed on to its offspring through the germline. Many cancers are somatic mutations.
Somatic is also defined as relating to the wall of the body cavity, particularly as distinguished from the head, limbs or viscera.
It is also used in the term somatic nervous system which is the portion of the vertebrate nervous system which regulates voluntary movements of the body.
Somatic may refer to:
- Somatic (biology), referring to the cells of the body in contrast to the germ line cells
- Somatic nervous system, the portion of the vertebrate nervous system which regulates voluntary movements of the body
- Somatics, a group of alternative medicine approaches, experiential movement disciplines, and dance techniques
- Somatic theory, a model of human social behavior
Usage examples of "somatic".
I suggested that a more likely explanation was that at the moment she had been interrupted in her room she had in fact been fantasising about the act of fellatio with Herr P, and that it had been the pain of her absence from him while in Paris that caused this somatic representation of what she had lost.
Somatic reward, in-human soft-skin-bliss, hip sophistication, erotic movement, hedonic consumption.
The visible cheek had the subaqueous tint of somatic shock, and Jonathan was afraid he would pass out.
As I earlier pointed out, according to Berman our salvation must be primarily bodily, sensory, and somatic in nature, and thus what we really need, in this sensory-bound, pleasure-seeking, body-gratifying culture of ours is .
He could be somatic, hypophrenic, schizoid, cycloid -or any combination of these.
Daddy was really quite modest in his somatic tastes, tending toward the Cellini side of the scale, while the majority favored a more Michelangelesque style.
This somatic outing borders on metamorphosis: the glands are like walnuts, and the bird tuberculosis has an almost Ovidian flavor to it, in addition to a scary sense of flight and flux, so that even the dead body in the casket is disturbingly active and on the move, a potent agent of transmission.
He simply switches definitions whenever necessary: from somatic experience to all experience and back again.
Somatic narcissists simply use women as objects and then discard them.
A somatic narcissist may be prone to changing partners with greater frequency or wish to have no partner, preferring to have multiple, casual sexual relationships of no apparent depth which never last very long.
If your narcissist is somatic, you are much better off lining up the sex partners than leaving it to him.
SOMATIC ECOLOGY JOURNAL SPORTS AND MUTATION REPORT REPTILIAN HEREDITY REVIEW SUMMARY A case is presented for the interpretation of cross-economic relationships in a Bolivian mountain village as a manifestation of Mergendahler's Syndrome with the energising factors deweighted by religious, nutritional and Isolated genetic material is now available from GT for Rana palustris ay well as Rattus norvegicus albus.
Once the somatic body differentiates from the world (F-2)which Berman does not really see as a necessary differentiation on the way to higher integration, but primarily as the "basic split, the basic alienation, the basic default"once that "basic split" occurs, then all of these other bodies are really twisted and distorted ways to bridge the gap, to come to terms with the Original Sin (the "single" boundary), and thus all of these other bodiesthat is, the entire spectrum of Ascending developments!
Third is somatic, which involves a kind of hyper awareness of the body--anorexia nervosa or hypochondria, for example.
Even prolonged sexual performance by males is an example of somatic intervention over the autonomic nervous system.