The word 'somatic' is correct and usable in written English.
'Somatic' is an adjective that means relating to the body, especially as distinct from the mind. It can also refer to the physical sensations or experiences of the body. Example: The somatic responses to stress can include increased heart rate, sweating, and muscle tension.
But Kearns said the court "is satisfied, in the circumstances of this case, that it is in the best interests of the unborn child; it should authorise at the discretion of the medical team the withdrawal of ongoing somatic support being provided in this tragic and unfortunate case".
The judge added: "To maintain and continue the present somatic support for the mother would deprive her of dignity and subject her father, her partner and her young children to unimaginable distress in a futile exercise which commenced only because of fears held by treating medical specialists of potential consequences".
Cancers with many somatic mutations rarely had many unusual copy numbers, and vice versa.
He created two overarching groups: those with somatic genetic mutations (ie, mutations that have happened in a person's body cells during his lifetime, and which are thus not inherited) and those that, like Dr Beroukhim's, had an unusual number of copies of some sections of their DNA.One surprise was that Dr Sander could draw such clear lines.
The veterinarian points to recent data collected by the National Animal Health Monitoring System suggesting that somatic cell counts in cows have been shrinking (a high count is a potential sign of mastitis)—although other data suggest that incidences of mastitis and lameness have increased since 1996.
Such somatic mutations, as those in body cells are known, can cause chaos in an individual's organs, but are not passed to his or her offspring.In the case of cancer, an accumulation of somatic mutations causes a breakdown of the regulatory mechanisms that stop a cell from multiplying uncontrollably.
It allows stringent locks to be put on somatic cells (which, for example, strictly limit the number of times they can divide), yet it permits tissue to be renewed.
Somatic nuclear transfer, or "cloning" as it is more popularly known, is a way of creating embryos without the conventional meeting of egg and sperm that is needed to provide a full complement of the genetic material to make a new individual.
Not only will the cancerous tissue be sampled, so will healthy tissue from each patient.Comparing the healthy and the cancerous tissue in each individual will reveal the somatic mutations which that individual has undergone.
Without stem cells, such tissue-renewal would be the province of any and every somatic cell a recipe, as the traditional model observes, for tumorous disaster.
The rest, called somatic cells, are merely supporting actors, specialised for the tasks needed to give the sex cells a chance to get into the next generation.
