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It is usually inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. (source: http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Gigantism) In addition to tallness, the chief characteristics are large head size, slow development, and autosomal-dominant inheritance. (source: http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Gigantism) Other names somewhat obsolete for this pathology are hypersomy (Greek: hyper over the normal level; soma body), macrogenesis (Greek: makros great, large, long; genesis production, generation) and somatomegaly (Greek; soma body, object pronoun somatos of the body; megas, megalos great). (source: http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Gigantism) These parallel fibers make relatively weaker excitatory (glutamatergic) synapses to spines in the Purkinje cell dendrite, whereas climbing fibers originating from the inferior olivary nucleus in the medulla provide very powerful excitatory input to the proximal dendrites and cell soma. (source: http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Purkinje_cell) Neurons (gray matter): soma, axon (axon hillock, axoplasm, axolemma, neurofibril/neurofilament), dendrite (Nissl body, dendritic spine). (source: http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Purkinje_cell) Soma is also a girl's name, popular in Kurdish cultures. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma) Both Soma and the Avestan Haoma are derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma) In the Vedas, Soma is portrayed as sacred and as a god (deva). (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma) In this aspect, Soma is similar to the Greek ambrosia (cognate to amrita); it is what the gods drink, and what made them deities. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma) en.wikipedia.org
Soma (Sanskrit: सोमः), or Haoma (Avestan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-, was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and greater Persian cultures. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma)
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