soma

Shanghai feels like it’s having a soma moment.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022

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

From The Verge ● Jul. 16, 2020

Emotions are neutered via the regular administration of a drug known as soma, which keeps everyone in their place and guarantees a place for everyone.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2020

One difference is how our society’s versions of soma — Twitter, YouTube algorithms — as often seek to inflame as to pacify us.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2020

“Bring three men,” he ordered, “and take Mr. Marx into a bedroom. Give him a good soma vaporization and then put him to bed and leave him.”

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

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 James Alexander Robertson

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 James Alexander Robertson

The cakes were called Soul-mass or "somas" cakes.

From The Book of Hallowe'en by Ruth Edna Kelley