[f. SOMATO- + -LOGY, or ad. mod.L. somatologia (O. Casmann, 1596). Cf. F. somatologie (1762).]

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  1.  A treatise or science dealing with the properties of bodies.

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1736.  Bailey (fol.), Pref. Somatology,… a Discourse of Matter or Substance in the General, the Natures and inseparable Properties of Bodies.

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1813–21.  Bentham, Ontology, Wks. 1843, VIII. 195/1. Somatology, the only branch of physics that comes under the cognisance of sense.

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  2.  A treatise or science dealing with the human body in some respect.

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1851.  Dunglison, Dict. Med. Sci., Somatology.… A treatise on the human body. Anatomy.

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1868.  Porter, Human Intellect (1870), § 3. 7. Somatology signifies the science of the body only, and is subdivided into anatomy and physiology.

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1898.  D. G. Brinton, in Haddon, Study of Man, 491. Somatology.—Physical and Experimental Anthropology.

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