Soma

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Soma was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the subsequent Vedic and greater Persian cultures.

Soma may also refer to:

In pharmacology, biology, and therapy

• Soma (biology) (or perikaryon), the cell body of a neuron
• Somatic cell, a non-gametic cell in a multicellular organism.
• Somatherapy, also Soma or SOMA, a Brazilian anarchist therapy
• Carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant drug which has the trade name Soma

In geography

• Sōma, Aomori, a village located in Nakatsugaru District in southern Aomori Prefecture, Japan
• Sōma, Fukushima, a city located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
• Sōma District, Fukushima, a district located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
• Soma, the Gambia, a town in Gambia
• Soma, Manisa, a town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey
• South of Market, San Francisco, California (SoMa), a neighborhood in San Francisco
• South Main, a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• South Omaha, Nebraska, a former city and current district of Omaha, Nebraska

Music

• SomaFM, a listener-supported, commercial-free Internet radio station
• Soma Records, a Minneapolis record label
• Soma Quality Recordings, a record label co-founded by the duo Slam
• Soma (studio), a recording studio located in Chicago, USA
• SomaPlayer, an Internet radio tool for DJs
• Soma San Diego, a concert venue in San Diego, California
• Soma (Steve Roach & Robert Rich album), 1992
• Soma (Mallavoodoo album), 2006
• Soma (song), song from The Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 album Siamese Dream
• Soma, a song from Deadmau5's 2009 album For Lack of a Better Name
• Soma, a song from The Strokes' 2001 album Is This It

Fiction

• A fictional hallucinogenic drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, Brave New World and 1962 novel, Island
• Argento Soma, an anime series with a protagonist named Ryu Soma
• Soma Cruz, a character in the Castlevania video-game series
• Kukai Soma, a fictional character from the manga series Shugo Chara! by Peach-Pit
• Soma Peries, a fictional character from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00
• Prince Soma, a fictional character from the manga and anime Black Butler

Other

• School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona, one of three medical schools in Arizona
• Soma cube, a solid dissection puzzle invented by the Danish scientist Piet Hein in 1936
• Soma Bringer, a video game developed for the Nintendo DS by Monolith Soft that was released in Japan on February 28, 2008
• Service-oriented modeling, originally referred to as service-oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA) by IBM, a framework for software design
• Sharing of Ministries Abroad, an international Anglican charity
• Southern Ontario Model United Nations Association, the largest student-run model United Nations in North America
• Stephen O'Malley (born 1974), experimental musician and graphic designer also known by the pseudonym SOMA
• Soma (cannabis grower) (born 1949), American cannabis grower and breeder

See also

• Somatic, means 'of the body'
• Som (disambiguation)

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