| automatic contraction | In contrast to forced beat, an ectopic beat that arises de novo and is not precipitated by the preceding beat; thus escaped and parasystolic beat's are automatic. Synonym: automatic contraction. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| automatic data processing | Data processing largely performed by automatic means. (12 Dec 1998) |
| automatic epilepsy | <neurology> Seizures with elaborate and multiple sensory, motor, and/or psychic components. A common feature is the clouding of consciousness and amnesia for the event. Some clinical manifestations may include more complex behaviours like burst of anger, emotional outbursts, fear or automatisms. The EEG often reveals spike discharges in the temporal lobe during sleep. (02 Jan 1998) |
| automatic plugger | A mechanically or electrically activated device used to provide condensing pressure in the placement of amalgam or gold foil in a cavity preparation. Synonym: automatic condenser. (05 Mar 2000) |
| automatical | 1. Having an inherent power of action or motion. "Nothing can be said to be automatic." (Sir H. Davy) 2. Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; especially. Applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse. 3. Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions. "Unconscious or automatic reasoning." (H. Spenser) Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. Origin: Cf. F. Automatique. See Automaton. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| automatically | In an automatic manner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| automation | Controlled operation of an apparatus, process, or system by mechanical or electronic devices that take the place of human organs of observation, effort, and decision. (12 Dec 1998) |
| automatism | <neurology> A condition whereby an individual is consciously or unconsciously, but involuntarily, compelled to perform certain motor or verbal acts, often purposeless, foolish or harmful. Seen in psychomotor epilepsy, catatonic schizophrenia, psychogenic fugue, complex partial seizure, posttraumatic automatism and other conditions. Synonym: automatic behaviour. Origin: Gr. Automatismos = self action (02 Jan 1998) |
| automatograph | An instrument for recording automatic movements. (05 Mar 2000) |
| automaton | Origin: L. Fr. Gr, neut. Of self-moving; self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. To strive. See Mean, v. I. 1. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. "So great and admirable an automaton as the world." (Boyle) "These living automata, human bodies." (Boyle) 2. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| automatous | Automatic. "Automatous organs." Origin: L. Automatus, Gr. See Automaton. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| automixis | Synonym: autogamy. Origin: auto-+ G. Mixis, intercourse (05 Mar 2000) |
| automnesia | Spontaneous revival of memories of an earlier condition of life. Origin: auto-+ G. Mnesis, a remembering (05 Mar 2000) |
| automobile driver examination | Government required written and driving test given to individuals prior to obtaining an operator's license. (12 Dec 1998) |
| automobile driving | The effect of environmental or physiological factors on the driver and driving ability. Included are driving fatigue, and the effect of drugs, disease, and physical disabilities on driving. (12 Dec 1998) |
| autotroph |
autophyte: plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
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| automysophobia |
a morbid fear of being dirty
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| autophyte |
plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
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| autosexing |
(especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching
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| autologous |
derived from organisms of the selfsame individual; "autologous blood donation"
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| auto | in a mechanical manner |
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| auto | a highly technical implementation for the control of equipment |
| auto | equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation |
| auto | the condition of being automatically operated or controlled |
| auto | make automatic or control or operate automatically |
| auto | turn into an automaton |
| auto | any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy) |
| auto | make automatic or control or operate automatically |
| auto | turn into an automaton |
| auto | a mechanism that can move automatically |
| auto | someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way |
| auto | like the unthinking functioning of a machine |