| autotoxic | Relating to autointoxication. Synonym: autopoisonous. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| autotoxicosis | A disorder resulting from absorption of the waste products of metabolism, decomposed matter from the intestine, or the products of dead and infected tissue as in gangrene. Synonym: autotoxicosis, endogenic toxicosis, enterotoxication, enterotoxism, intestinal intoxication, self-poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotoxin | An endogenous toxic agent that causes autointoxication. Synonym: autotoxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotransfusion | Withdrawal and reinjection/transfusion of the patient's own blood. Compare: autoinfusion. Synonym: autohemotransfusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotransplant | <procedure> Graft taken from one part of the body and placed in another site on the same individual. (02 Jan 1998) |
| autotransplantation | The performance of an autograft. Synonym: autografting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotriploid | See: autoploid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotroph | <biology> An organism that makes its own food and does not require previously formed organic materials from the environment. Organisms that synthesise all their organic molecules from inorganic materials (carbon dioxide, salts etc.). Plants are classified as autotrophs because they use photosynthesis to make their own energy. May be photo autotrophs or chemo autotrophs, depending upon the source of the energy. Synonym: lithotrophic organism. Compare: heterotroph. (02 Jan 1998) |
| autotrophic | <biology> Independent of other organisms in respect of organic nutrition, able to fix carbon dioxide, by photosynthesis, to form carbohydrates. (02 Jan 1998) |
| autotrophy | The state of being self-sustaining and being able to produce food from inorganic compounds. Carbon autotrophy, ability to assimilate CO2 from the air. Nitrogen autotrophy, ability to assimilate nitrate or to do nitrogen fixation. Sulfur autotrophy, ability to assimilate sulfate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotype | 1. A facsimile. 2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate. Origin: Auto- + -type: cf. F. Autotype. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autotypography | A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate. Origin: Auto- + typography. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autovaccination | A second vaccination with virus from a vaccine sore on the same individual. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autoxidation | The direct combination of a substance with molecular oxygen at ordinary temperatures. Synonym: autoxidation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autozygous | Denoting genes in a homozygote that are copies of the identical ancestral gene as a result of a consanguineous mating. Origin: auto-+ G. Zygotos, yoked (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotroph |
Organism that is able to utilize carbon dioxide as a carbon source.
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| autopsy |
Examination of tissues and organs of the body after death.
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| autosomal |
Everyone gets 1 chromozome from their mother and one from their father. The mother's chromozome is always an "X", and the father gives either an "X" (which causes a female child) or a "Y" (which causes a male child). If a disorder is autosomal it is found on both the x and y chromozomes.
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| autotrophic |
Capable of growth independent of outside sources of nutrients or growth factors. (20)
출처: ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/glossary/Defs_A.htm
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| autochthonous |
Derived from within a system, such as organic matter in a stream resulting from photosynthesis by aquatic plants.
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