somatic

About 4.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
2. adjective Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.

   a somatic epitype

3. adjective Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.

   the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo

Similar words

physical bodily corporal corporeal egg tissue body fleshly carnal visceral

Often followed by

cells cell and symptoms complaints embryogenesis sensory mutation embryos mutations

Word family

somatically