Soma

Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan) is a plant, ritual, intoxicating drink and divinity among Vedic and greater Persian cultures.

Soma may also refer to:

In pharmacology, biology and therapy

• A trade name for carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant drug
• Soma (biology), the cell body of a neuron
• Somatherapy (also Soma or SOMA) a Brazilian anarchist therapy

In geography

• Sōma, Aomori, Japan
• Sōma, Fukushima, a city in Japan
• Sōma District, Fukushima, Japan
• Soma, Gambia, a city in West Africa
• Soma, Manisa, a city in Turkey
• SOMA District, meaning SO(uth of) MA(rket Street) or S(outh) O(f) MA(rket Street), in San Francisco, California, USA
• South Main, a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• South Omaha, Nebraska, in the USA

In music and popular culture

• Soma, a fictional hallucinogen like drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World
• SomaFM, listener-supported, commercial-free Internet radio
• Soma Quality Recordings, a record label co-founded by the duo Slam
• Soma (Smashing Pumpkins song), song from the 1993 album Siamese Dream
• Soma (The Strokes), a song from The Strokes' 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
• Soma Holiday (album), the debut album by the band Greenwheel
• 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 San Diego, a San Diego, California concert venue
• Stephen O'Malley, an experimental musician and graphic designer also known by the pseudonym SOMA

Other

• Service-Oriented Modelling and Architecture, coined by IBM. See Service-oriented analysis and design
• System Open Market Account. See Federal Open Market Committee
• SOMA: Sharing of Ministries Abroad, charity in Anglican Communion world-wide
• "Soma" (σωμα) is also the Greek word for "body" (see somatic), and may be used to describe a corpus (figure of the body of Jesus on the cross)
• Soma, the second strain of Stigma from Trauma Center: New Blood