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The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. B. G. Wilder.

A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj. [India]

A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.

Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.

Somatic.

The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.

One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Glanvill.

A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

The dictrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

See Somite.

The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ 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.

of or pertaining to the somatopleure.

A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs. Encyc. Brit.

Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.

A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindos. [Written also Brahma-samaj.]

A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.

Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

One of the orders of Pteropoda. They have no shell.

tc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.