soma to me (somatom)

[For * soma to to me, soma to me ταμεῖν, cut.] An ideal section or segment of the body; one of the structural parts into which a body, especially a vertebrate body, is theoretically divisible. When actually so divided, the soma tomes are the somites, metameres, arthromeres, diarthromeres, etc., which may exist in any given case. See somite.