Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Somatic \So*mat"ic\, 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.

   2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric;
      parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an
      embryo.

   {Somatic death}. See the Note under {Death}, n., 1.