‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, the body. ] (Anat.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. B. G. Wilder. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. (Ethnol.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. of or pertaining to Somalia or to the inhabitants of Somalia. [ PJC ]

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 ]

n. One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + ky`stis a bladder. ] (Zool.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + -logy. ] 1. The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A treatise on the human body; anatomy. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) The science which treats of anatomy and physiology, apart from psychology. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Anthropol.) The consideration of the physical characters of races and classes of men and of mankind in general. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, body + te`mnein to cut. ] (Anat. & Zool.) See Somite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + pleyra` side. ] (Anat.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure. [ 1913 Webster ]