Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The physiological and anatomical study of the body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of living or organized bodies, considered with regard only to their physical nature or structure.
- noun More broadly, physics; the doctrine of material bodies or substances.
- noun Specifically, the doctrine of the human body, as a department of anthropology; human anatomy and physiology; also, a treatise on this subject.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.
- noun A treatise on the human body; anatomy.
- noun (Biol.) The science which treats of anatomy and physiology, apart from psychology.
- noun (Anthropol.) The consideration of the physical characters of races and classes of men and of mankind in general.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of the
physical nature ofman .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From soma (body) + -ology.
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This case, however, is strictly based on medical science, somatology and statistics, "said Lee.
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