Soma (disambiguation)

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SOMA as an acronym

• 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
• SOMA (Semantic Object Modeling Approach) by Ian Graham
• S.O.M.A. - Students Organizing the Multiple Arts

in Biology

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

in geography

• Soma, Fukushima, a city in Japan
• Soma, Gambia, a city in West Africa
• Soma, Manisa, a city in Turkey
• SoMA
• South of Market, San Francisco, California, United States
• South Main (Vancouver), Canada a neighbourhood
• Somerville (Massachusetts), United States
• South Omaha, United States

in music and popular culture

• soma, famous german alternative rock band
• SomaFM, listener-supported, commercial-free Internet radio
• Soma Quality Recordings, a record label co-founded by the duo Slam
• Soma (Smashing Pumpkins), song from the 1993 album Siamese Dream
• Soma (The Strokes), song from the 2001 album Is This It?
• Soma (studio), a recording studio located in Chicago, USA
• 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

in pharmacology or therapy

• Soma is the fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World
• Soma is also a trade name for the muscle relaxant drug, carisoprodol
• Somatherapy (Soma, or SOMA), is a Brazilian anarchist therapy

in religion

• Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan) is a plant, ritual, intoxicating drink and divinity among Vedic and greater Persian cultures.
• Soma (liturgy), in the Eastern Orthodox Church refers to the figure of the crucified Christ hanging on the cross; similar to the corpus in the West.