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From Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós, “bodily”), σῶμα (sôma, “body”).

somatic (not comparable)

Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
- 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 116:
  The somatic and botanical metaphors in this passage were commonplace in the 1700s.
Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.
a somatic epitype
Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo

relating to the body of an organism

somatic m or n (feminine singular somatică, masculine plural somatici, feminine and neuter plural somatice)