[f. SOMA(TO)- + -TOME.] A section or segment of the body.
1856. Goodsir, in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl., V. 121. To the constituent segment, with its diverging appendages, I apply the term Somatome…. The constituent somatomes are invariably arranged in groups.
Hence Somatomic a.
1882. Trans. Linn. Soc., II. III. 166. Only where the notochord lingers can any trace of somatomic division be seen.
