| 单词 | somatic |
| 释义 | somatic (once / 29697 pages) adj Somatic is a fancy word that just means dealing with the body. You may be tired of hearing your great-grandfather's somatic complaints, but give him a break - his body has been working for 80 years! Soma means body in Latin, so somatic means of the body and is most often used in connection with one's health. You may be more familiar with the related word, psychosomatic, which describes a physical condition or illness caused by the mind rather than a virus or a sprain. If you don't want to go to school so much that you begin to feel sick, that is psychosomatic. But sometimes, your somatic symptoms mean you really do have a cold! WORD FAMILYsomatic: somatically USAGE EXAMPLESThis is consistent with relaxed selection for repair in the immediate aftermath of allotetraploidy, when all genes were present in four copies per somatic cell5. Nature(Oct 18, 2016) And because the germline mutation affects all somatic cells, these children are more prone to developing multiple tumours in both eyes. Nature(Aug 23, 2016) Somatic mutations are in red and residues arising from recombination at the V-D-J junction are in green. Nature(Jun 22, 2016) adj affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit a somatic symptom or somatic illness Syn bodily, corporal, corporeal physical involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit |
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