a. [f. SOMATO- + -LOGICAL. Cf. F. somatologique.] Of or pertaining to somatology.
1816. Bentham, Chrestomathia, Wks. 1843, VIII. 149. Linnæus, the father, as he may be termed, of Somatological tactics.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 54 (1822), II. 15. Kubla Khan … he calls ‘a psychological curiosity.’ It is so; but it is also and still more a somatological or bodily one.
1898. Haddon, Study of Man, 438. Instructions for making certain somatological observations.
Hence Somatologically adv.
1888. Science, 9 Nov., 227/2. Equal to denying that the Basques and the Fins belong somatologically to the white race. Ibid., 228/1.
