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Somatic vs Somatics - What's the difference?

somatic | somatics |

As an adjective somatic

is part of, or relating to the body of an organism.

As a noun somatics is

(medicine) any of several holistic approaches to physical therapy that attempts to train both the body and the mind.

somatic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
  • Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
    • the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo

    Related terms

    * psychosomatic * chromosome * somatology * somatoplasm

    somatics

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia somatics) (-)
  • (medicine) Any of several holistic approaches to physical therapy that attempts to train both the body and the mind
  • (archaic) The science dealing with the general properties of matter; somatology.

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