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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)