somatic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
    corporal; corporeal; bodily.
    • bodily needs
    • a corporal defect
    • corporeal suffering
    • a somatic symptom or somatic illness

WordNet

So*mat"ic adjective
Etymology
Gr. , fr. the body.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
  2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.

Webster 1913