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"
In a general sense, pertaining to the body (soma) Usually, it is employed in the more specific sense of pertaining to the striated musculature of the body, in contrast to the viscera
a physical pain or discomfort of any kind The word somatic means, actually, bodily or physical Because the word pain is restimulative, and because the word pain has in the past led to a confusion between physical pain and mental pain, somatic is the term used in Dianetics instead See also restimulation
Pertaining to or characteristic of the body When modifying "cells", it refers to those that are not germ cells capable of passing along a mutation to progeny [S L Brown]