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Somat– is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “body.” It is occasionally used in scientific terms, especially in biology.

Somat– ultimately comes from Greek ��ô����, meaning “body.” The Latin equivalent of ��ô���� was corpus, “body,” which is the source of corps, corpse, corporal, and corporeal. To learn more, check out our entries for all four words.

������ are variants of somat-?

Somat– is a variant of somato–, which loses its –o– when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. The combining forms –some and –soma come from the same Greek root and are used to mean “body,” as in chromosome or Schistosoma. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use articles for somato-, –some, and –soma.

An example of a term that features somat– is somatalgia, “pain in the body due to organic causes.”

Somat– means “body,” while the –algia part of the word means “pain,” from Greek á�����Dz�. Somatalgia literally means “body pain.”

������ are some words that use the combining form somat-?

• somatagnosia
• somatasthenia
• somatesthesia
• somatic (using the equivalent form of somat– in Greek)
• somatist

������ are some other forms that somat– may be commonly confused with?

• atmo-
• osmo-
• somni-

The word esthesia means “capacity for sensation or feeling; sensitivity.” With this in mind, what is somatesthesia?