| somatopagus | Conjoined twins united in their body regions. See: conjoined twins. Origin: somato-+ G. Pagos, something fixed (05 Mar 2000) |
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| somatopathic | Relating to bodily or organic illness, as distinguished from mental (psychologic) disorder. Origin: somato-+ G. Pathos, suffering (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatopathy | An obsolete term for any disease of the body. Origin: somato-+ G. Pathos, suffering (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatophrenia | A tendency to imagine or exaggerate body ills. Origin: somato-+ G. Phren, mind (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatoplasm | Aggregate of all the forms of specialised protoplasm entering into the composition of the body, other than germ plasm. Origin: somato-+ G. Plasma, something formed (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatopleure | <anatomy> The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. Origin: Gr, body + side. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| somatopleuric | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the somatopleure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| somatoprosthetics | The art and science of prosthetically replacing external parts of the body that are missing or deformed. Origin: somato-+ G. Prosthesis, an addition (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatopsychic | Relating to the body-mind relationship; the study of the effects of the body upon the mind, as opposed to psychosomatic, which is mind on body. Origin: somato-+ G. Psyche, soul (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatopsychosis | An emotional disorder associated with an organic disease. Origin: somato-+ G. Psychosis, an animating (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatoscopy | Examination of the body. Origin: somato-+ G. Skopeo, to view (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatosensory | Sensation relating to the body's superficial and deep parts as contrasted to specialised senses such as sight. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatosensory cortex | Area of the parietal lobe concerned with receiving general sensations. It lies posterior to the central sulcus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| somatosensory evoked potential | The computer-averaged cortical and subcortical responses to repetitive stimulation of peripheral nerve sensory fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatosexual | Denoting the somatic aspects of sexuality as distinguished from its psychosexual aspects. (05 Mar 2000) |