somatology

Malibu-based yoga instructor Danielle Cuccio’s line, Cuccio Somatology, has a salve that absorbs into the skin and has a mild eucalyptus scent.

These data were drawn from W. W. Howells, "Anthropometry and Blood Types in Fiji and the Solomon Islands" in The American Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Papers, volume 33, part 4, 1933, and from L. R. Sullivan, "A Contribution to Tongan Somatology" based on the field studies of E. W. Gifford and W. C. McKern, in Memoires of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, volume 8, number 4, 1922.

Sōmatolog′ic, -al, pertaining to somatology, corporeal, physical.—ns.

Anthropology, again, is sometimes used in the narrower sense implied in the word somatology, the study of the physical structure and distinctive characteristics of the various races of mankind.

The science of the body was Somatology, that of the mind Pneumatology.