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SOMATIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
Example:
a somatic symptom or somatic illness
Synonyms:
bodily; corporal; corporeal; somatic
Classified under:
Similar:
physical (involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit)
Context examples:
The PHQ-15: Validity of a new measure for evaluating the severity of somatic symptoms.
(Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 Item, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It is caused by a somatic mutation in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis gene.
(Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, NCI Thesaurus)
A standardized survey developed and published by Kurt Kroenke, Robert Spitzer and Janet Williams in 2002 in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine which is used to assess the severity of an individual's somatic symptoms.
(Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 Item, NCI Thesaurus)
An appreciable frequency of somatic MLH3 mutations in MSI-H tumors is consistent with a possible role for this gene in the progression of colorectal cancer tumorigenesis.
(DNA Mismatch Repair Protein MLH3, NCI Thesaurus)
Individuals who are poor metabolizers of cytochrome P450 2D6 substrates are at increased risk for the development of pesticide-induced somatic Parkinson's disease.
(CYP2D6 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
A heritable or somatic mutation in a genomic DNA sequence that causes the death of a eukaryotic organism at the embryonic stage of development.
(Embryonic Lethal Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)
An eating away or breakdown of any type of external or internal human tissue including but not limited to skin, teeth, mucosa, or somatic, which involves only the outer tissue layer.
(Erosion, NCI Thesaurus)
However, it primarily acts at the brain stem to reduce tonic somatic motor activity, influencing both gamma and alpha motor neurons.
(Cyclobenzaprine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
Mutations in this allele are a factor in the occurrence of neurofibromatosis type II, schwannomatosis and somatic meningioma.
(NF2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Any type of recombination occuring within somatic cells and involving possible exchange and frequent loss of segments of DNA by either homologous or nonhomologous recombination of broken DNA strands.
(Mitotic Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)
