SOMATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somatic mean? 

• SOMATIC (adjective)
  The adjective SOMATIC has 1 sense:

1. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

  Familiarity information: SOMATIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

Synonyms:

bodily; corporal; corporeal; somatic

Context example:

a somatic symptom or somatic illness

Similar:

physical (involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit)

 Context examples 

A family of immunogenic proteins that are found in a wide variety of tumors but are not expressed in adult somatic cells.

(Cancer/Testis Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this gene are associated with somatic Tn polyagglutination syndrome.

(C1GALT1C1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Certain allelic variants of CASP8 are associated with caspase-8 protein deficiency and somatic hepatocellular carcinoma.

(CASP8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Both heritable and somatic defects in the CD247 gene are associated with T cell immunodeficiency.

(CD247 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A somatic mutation of the epidermal growth factor receptor gene which encodes a 170kDa transmembrane protein, a short transmembrane region, and an intracellular domain.

(EGFR Activating Mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

A chromosomal abnormality consisting of the absence of one of the copies of chromosome 7 in somatic cells.

(Monosomy 7, NCI Thesaurus)

Inherited or somatic mutations in the wild-type form of these genes alters control of their expression, resulting in a change in control of the cell cycle.

(Cancer-Predisposing Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Although somatic cell nuclear transfer was used successfully in amphibians as early as 1952, getting it to work in mammals took much longer.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

Somatic mutations in the PIK3CA gene that increase the enzymatic activity of its protein product are associated with a number of cancer types such as breast, colorectal and ovarian cancers.

(PIK3CA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

B cell development begins with immunoglobulin gene somatic recombination and pre-B cell receptor expression.

(B-Cell Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)