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somatology

 [so″mah-tol´ah-je]
the sum of what is known about the body.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

so·ma·tol·o·gy

(sō'mă-tol'ŏ-jē),
The science concerned with the study of the body; includes both anatomy and physiology.
[somato- + G. logos, study]
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somatology

(sō′mə-tŏl′ə-jē)
n.
1. The physiological and anatomical study of the body.
2. See physical anthropology.
so′ma·to·log′ic (sō′mə-tl-ŏj′ĭk, sō-măt′l-), so′ma·to·log′i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.
so′ma·tol′o·gist n.
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so·ma·tol·o·gy

(sō'mă-tol'ŏ-jē)
The science concerned with the study of the body; includes both anatomy and physiology.
[somato- + G. logos, study]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
References in periodicals archive
2) Physical anthropology (somatology) was developed by Rudolf Virchow, a personality who also stimulated the unfolding of prehistoric archeology and who for Boas represented a model worthy to follow in science because he felicitously combined vast encyclopedic knowledge with the genius for understanding the causal relation between phenomena.
Conversely, Boas (1989: 273) observed that while physical anthropology (somatology) was interested in differences between human types, ethnology concentrated on similarities between cultural types from regions set apart from each other (Anthropology, 1908).
Master gears of anthropology: nature and culture
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