| autotetraploid | See: autoploid. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| autotherapy | 1. Self-treatment. 2. Spontaneous cure. Synonym: autoserotherapy. 4. An obsolete method of treating disease by the administration of the patient's own pathologic excretions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotomy | The act of casting off a body part as a means of escape; e.g., the limb of a crab or the tail of a lizard. Origin: auto-+ G. Tome, a cutting (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotopagnosia | Inability to recognise or to orient any part of one's own body; caused by a parietal lobe lesion. Compare: somatotopagnosis. Origin: auto-+ G. Topos, place, + G. A-priv. + gnosis (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotoxaemia | Autointoxicants present in the blood, usually resulting in autointoxication. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autotoxic | Relating to autointoxication. Synonym: autopoisonous. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |