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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 of man.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From soma (body) +‎ -ology.

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