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What it means
A word about the physical body. In mental health, somatic symptoms are body complaints, such as pain or tiredness, and somatic symptom disorder is a condition in which worry about body symptoms takes over daily life. In anatomy, the somatic nervous system controls the muscles we move on purpose, and somatic cells are all body cells other than egg and sperm cells.
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Related terms
sensory nerve
A nerve that carries signals about touch, pain, temperature, position and the other senses toward the brain and spinal cord.
involuntary muscle
Muscle that works without a person's conscious control, such as smooth muscle and heart muscle.