any "illness" generated by an engram or engrams. The word somatic means bodily or physical. Because the word pain is restimulative, and because the word painhas in the past led to confusion between physical pain and mental pain, the word somatic is used in Dianetics and Scientology to denote physical pain or discomfort of any kind. See also engram in this glossary.—PDC Volume 6 Approved Glossary