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soma

[soh-muh] / ˈsoʊ mə /


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Shanghai feels like it’s having a soma moment.

From Washington Post Dec. 31, 2022

Dendrites receive the signal, which passes through the soma.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Outrage drives us, and if there is a soma, we probably can’t afford it.

From The Verge Jul. 16, 2020

For instance, the soma of a neuron can vary in size from 4 to 100 micrometers in diameter.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

Touched, Bernard felt himself at the same time humiliated by this magnanimity—a magnanimity the more extraordinary and therefore the more humiliating in that it owed nothing to soma and everything to Helmholtz’s character.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

The somas of sensory neurons are located in dorsal root ganglia.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

The somas of motor neurons are found in the ventral portion of the gray matter of the spinal cord.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Afterward three other somas were discovered, which were coming from Siam.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander

The galleons went to the coasts of Ligor and Siam, and discovered three somas, freight ships of these seas.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander

Another of the somas belonged to the Siamese king, and was being laden to go to China for the purpose of trading lead, ivory, silver, leather, etc.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander




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