\So*mat"ic\, a. [Gr. swmatiko`s, fr. sw^ma the body.]
1. Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as,
   somatic death; somatic changes.

2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric;
   parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an
   embryo.

{Somatic death}. See the Note under {Death}, n., 1.