soma to cyst (soma to sist)

[ Calycophora , Siphonophora2 , and cuts under Di phyidæ and Physalia . soma to cystic (soma-to-sis'tik), a. [ -γενής , produced: see -genous.] Originating in the soma, body, or physical organism in consequence of its conditions of environment: noting those modifications or biological characters which an organism acquires in reacting upon its material surroundings. He [Prof. Weismann] uses the term somatogenic to expre those characters which first appear in the body itself, and which follow from the reaction of the soma under direct external influences. Nature , XL. 531. somatologic (soma-to-loj'ik), a. [ somatological . somatological (sō"ma-to-loj'i-kal), a. [ matolog -y+ -ic - al .] Of or pertaining to somatology in any sense, especially to somatology as a department of anthropology; physical; corporeal; material. somatologically (soma-to-loj'i-kal-i), adv. As regards physique or bodily frame; physically; from the point of view of somatology. Science, IMG:content-1525.jpg:[graphic][merged small]