| automatous | Automatic. "Automatous organs." Origin: L. Automatus, Gr. See Automaton. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| 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) |
| automobiles | A usually four-wheeled automotive vehicle designed for passenger transportation and commonly propelled by an internal-combustion engine using a volatile fuel. (webster, 1973) (12 Dec 1998) |
| automorphic | Patterned after one's self. "The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, is automorphic." (H. Spenser) Origin: Auto- + Gr. For, shape. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| automorphism | Automorphic characterization. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| automysophobia | <psychology> Morbid dread of personal uncleanliness. Origin: auto-+ G. Mysos, dirt, + phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| autonomasy | The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London." Origin: Auto- + Gr. A name, fr. A name; or for E. Antonomasia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autonomic | <physiology> Self controlling, functionally independent. (02 Jan 1998) |
| autonomic agents | Agents affecting the function of, or mimicking the actions of, the autonomic nervous system and thereby having an effect on such processes as respiration, circulation, digestion, body temperature regulation, certain endocrine gland secretions, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| autonomic denervation | The removal or interruption of some part of the autonomic nervous system for therapeutic or research purposes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| autonomic disorder | Disorganization of autonomic processes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autonomic epilepsy | Episodes of autonomic dysfunction presumably due to diencephalic irritation. Synonym: diencephalic epilepsy, vasomotor epilepsy, vasovagal epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000) |