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

Such disturbances he says, acting on the germ-cells, would be truly somatogenic.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

Most of the characters in domesticated varieties are obviously gametogenic mutations, but the lop-ear in rabbits may be, partly at least, somatogenic.

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.

The theory of the heredity of somatogenic modifications is not in opposition to the mutation theory.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

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

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.