somatic
adjective
of the body; bodily; physical.
Example Sentences
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Yet Smoczynska and her cast still manage to conjure something somatically beguiling, akin to being put in a trance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
“I think somatically it speaks to the interest of these players who still have a lot to give to a club,” Thorrington said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
The discovery and translation of inherited determinants of drug response and somatically acquired genetic variants in cancer are prominent pharmacogenomic components of these and other initiatives.
From Nature ● Oct. 13, 2015
So if you somatically allocate to growth, for instance, you have less to allocate towards maintenance and reproduction.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 27, 2013
We have to deal simply with the old questions of what is constitutionally in the germ, what is acquired by the body, and lastly, whether the somatically acquired is inherited.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
