Somatist

sō′ma-tist, n. one who admits the existence of corporeal beings only.— n. Sō′ma , the trunk of an animal: the body as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit.— adjs. Sōmat′ic , -al , physical, corporeal: parietal: pertaining to the body cavity.— n. Sō′matism , materialism.— adjs. Sōmatolog′ic , -al , pertaining to somatology, corporeal, physical.— ns. Sōmatol′ogy , the doctrine or science of bodies or material substances, human anatomy and physiology; Sō′matome , one of the homologous serial segments of which the body of a vertebrate is theoretically composed.— adj. Sōmatopleu′ral , pertaining to the Somat′opleure , the outer one of two divisions of the mesoderm of a four-layered germ.— n. Sōmatot′omy , the di ection of a body.— adj. Sōmatotrop′ic , showing Somatot′ropism , any stimulative influence exerted upon growing organs by the substratum on which they grow. [Gr. sōma , the body.]