originating in the cells of the body: of organic, rather than mental, origin
a somatogenic disorder
somatogenic in American English
(səˌmætəˈdʒenɪk, ˌsoumətə-)
adjective
Biology
developing from somatic cells
Also: somatogenetic (səˌmætədʒəˈnetɪk, ˌsoumətə-)
Word origin
[1900–05; somato- + -genic]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, clone, desensitize, internship, throwawaysomato- is a combining form meaning “body,” used in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix somato- include: somatoform, somatomedin, somatopsychic, somatosensory, somatotype; -genic is a combining form often corresponding to nouns ending in -gen or -geny, with the following senses: “producing or causing” (hallucinogenic); “produced or caused by” (cosmogenic); “pertaining to a gene or genes” (polygenic); “pertaining to suitability for reproduction by a medium” (telegenic)
Examples of 'somatogenic' in a sentence
somatogenic
Three components are distinguished in the phenomenon of “pain”: nocigenic (somatogenic), neurogenic (neuropathic) and psychogenic.
V. I. Poberezhnyi, O. V. Marchuk, O. S. Shvidyuk, I. Y. Petrik 2018, 'Fundamentals of the modern theory of the phenomenon of “pain” in terms of a systematicapproach to issues its psychological component. Terminology of the systemic approachand a brief representation of the human body as a system', Медицина болюhttps://painmedicine.org.ua/index.php/pnmdcn/article/view/97. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Craniomandibulary somatogenic pain which dentists most often face are mainly nociceptic.
V S Bulgakov, S Saakyan Shogokat, S N Razumova 2011, 'Craniomandibular pains in orthopedic stomatology. Clinical features, diagnosnosis,treatment', RUDN Journal of Medicinehttp://journals.rudn.ru/medicine/article/view/3286. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)