| autonomously replicating sequence | <molecular biology> This is a chromosomal sequence that allows plasmids to replicate on their own in yeast. (02 Jan 1998) |
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| autonomy | 1. The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state. 2. <psychology> The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. Origin: Gr., cf. F. Autonomie. See Autonomous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autoparenchymatous metaplasia | Metaplasia occurring in the parenchymal cells proper to the tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autopathic | Rarely used synonym for idiopathic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autopentaploid | See: autoploid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autopepsia | Rarely used term for self-digestion, said of ulceration of the gastric mucous membrane by its own secretion, or the digestion of the skin surrounding a gastrostomy or colostomy opening. Origin: auto-+ G. Pepsis, digestion (05 Mar 2000) |
| autophagi | <ornithology> Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Self + to eat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autophagia | 1. Biting one's own flesh; e.g., as a symptom of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. 2. Maintenance of the nutrition of the whole body by metabolic consumption of some of the body tissues. Synonym: autophagy. Origin: auto-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000) |
| autophagic | Relating to or characterised by autophagia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autophagic vacuole | <cell biology> Membrane bounded region of cytoplasm that is subsequently digested. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (18 Nov 1997) |
| autophagocytosis | The segregation and degradation of damaged or unwanted cytoplasmic constituents by autophagic vacuoles (cytolysosomes) composed of lysosomes containing cellular components in the process of digestion; it plays an important role in metamorphosis of amphibians, in the removal of bone by osteoclasts, and in the degradation of normal cell components in nutritional deficiency states. (12 Dec 1998) |
| autophagolysosome | The digestive vacuole of autophagy that results from the fusion of a primary lysosome with an autophagic vacuole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autophagosome | <cell biology> This is the name given to the membrane-bound bodies, found inside cells, which trap and break down organelles. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (02 Jan 1998) |
| autophagy | <cell biology> Removal of cytoplasmic components, particularly membrane bounded organelles, by digesting them within secondary lysosomes (autophagic vacuoles). Particularly common in embryonic development and senescence. (02 Jan 1998) |
| autophilia | Synonym: narcissism. Origin: auto-+ G. Phileo, to love (05 Mar 2000) |
| autoimmune neutropenia |
most common in infants and young children where the body identifies the neutrophils as enemies and makes antibody to destroy them. This form usually lessens in severity within two years of diagnosis.
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutropenia
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| automysophobia |
The English suffix -phobia is technically used to describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder, and commonly misused to describe hatred of a particular thing or subject. Everyday language has misused the use of this suffix as a mild or irrational fear with no serious substance; however, its origin is from areas of psychiatry which study serious phobias which disable a person's life. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automysophobia
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| autonomic neuropathy |
Autonomic neuropathy is a disease of the non-voluntary, non-sensory nervous system affecting mostly the internal organs such as the bladder muscles, the cardiovascular system, the digestive tract, and the genital organs. These nerves are not under a person's conscious control and function automatically. They do not run through the spinal cord. Also called visceral neuropathy. Most commonly autonomic neuropathy is seen in persons with long-standing diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_neuropathy
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| automaticity |
Habituation is an example of non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition of a stimulus. It is another form of integration. An animal first responds to a sensory stimulus, but if it is neither rewarding nor harmful the animal learns to suppress its response through repeated encounters. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaticity
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| autocatalysis |
Catalysis of a reaction by one of its own products.
출처: www.geocities.com/templarser/complexglos.html
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| auto | a morbid fear of being dirty |
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| auto | (physiology) relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system |
| auto | any of the ganglia of the autonomic system whose unmyelinated fibers innervate the internal organs |
| auto | the part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands |
| auto | a plexus of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibers |
| auto | of persons |
| auto | existing as an independent entity |
| auto | of political bodies |
| auto | immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence |
| auto | personal independence |
| auto | plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances |
| auto | (botany) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis |