Soma (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan) is a plant, ritual, intoxicating dring and divinity among Vedic and greater Persian cultures.
  • Soma (Brave New World), a fictional drug in Huxley's Brave New World
  • carisoprodol, generic name of drug "Soma"
  • Somatherapy (Soma, or SOMA), a Brazilian anarchist therapy

• Soma is also the Greek word for "body", see somatic
  • Soma (biology), the cell body of a neuron

in geography

• Soma, Manisa, a city in Turkey
• Soma, Fukushima, a city in Japan
• Soma, Gambia, a city in West Africa
• SoMa can refer to the neighborhood South of Market, San Francisco, California
• South Main (Vancouver), a neighbourhood

in music and popular culture

• SomaFM, listener-supported, commercial-free Internet radio
• Soma (Smashing Pumpkins), song from the 1993 album Siamese Dream
• Soma (Project 86), song from the album Truthless Heroes
• Soma (The Strokes), song from the 2001 album Is This It?
• Soma (studio), a recording studio located in Chicago, USA
• Soma Records, a Scottish dance music label
• Soma (Band), an instrumental, electronic/organic project featuring the talents of David Thrussell and Pieter Bourke
• Soma (album), a 1992 album by Steve Roach and Robert Rich
• Ryu Soma in Argento Soma
• The Soma cube, a puzzle invented by Piet Hein
• Soma player or Soma project, an internet radio DJing tool
• Soma Cruz, one of the main characters in the Castlevania video game series

SOMA as an acronym

• SOMA (Semantic Object Modeling Approach) by Ian Graham
• Service-Oriented Modelling and Architecture, coined by IBM. See Service-oriented analysis and design
• SOMA: Sharing of Ministries Abroad, charity in Anglican Communion world-wide
• The Southern Ontario Model United Nations Assembly, the largest Canadian model-UN conference run by high-school students
• SOMA: Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics, a student organization at the University of Kansas
• SOMA , a information security management system from ISECOM in development since early 2006.
• SOMA, the Student Osteopathic Medical Association.