somatogenic

American  

[suh-mat-uh-jen-ik, soh-muh-tuh-] / səˌmæt əˈdʒɛn ɪk, ˌsoʊ mə tə- /

Also somatogenetic

adjective

Biology.

1. developing from somatic cells.

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somatogenic British  

/ səˌmætəʊˈdʒɛnɪk /

adjective

1. med originating in the cells of the body: of organic, rather than mental, origin

   a somatogenic disorder

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Etymology

Origin of somatogenic

First recorded in 1900–05; somato- + -genic

Example Sentences

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somatogenic

Adaptations are due to somatogenic modifications, non-adaptive diagnostic characters to gametogenic mutations.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

If it be proved that a hereditary character was originally somatogenic, it follows that somatogenic characters in time become hereditary.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

I have endeavoured to find a case which would not be open to the above criticism—that is, to find a character which could be considered somatogenic and which was absent in a closely allied variety.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

At the same time there are some somatic sex-characters, e.g. in insects and birds, which do not appear to be correlated with changes in the gonads, and which are probably gametogenic, not somatogenic in origin.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

For the present, therefore, we must conclude that feathers are not an adaptation, and not due to somatogenic modification, but must be result of a gametogenic mutation.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.