The Collaborative International Dictionary
Somatic death
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.
Usage examples of "somatic death".
The hour of his somatic death and mental entry into the system lay decades ahead, if brute chance did not intervene.