| autoantigen | A "self" antigen; any tissue constituent that evokes an immune response to the host's tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| autoantigens | Antigens that, despite being normal tissue constituents, are the target of a humoral or cell-mediated immune response, as in autoimmune diseases. (12 Dec 1998) |
| autoassay | Detection or estimation of the amount of a substance produced in an organism by means of a test object in that organism, as, for example, use of the denervated heart in situ of a cat to assay for epinephrine or sympathin liberated into its bloodstream. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autoaugmentation | Augmentation of the bladder by incision and excision of detrusor muscle leaving only bladder epithelium. Synonym: autocystoplasty, Snow procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autobiographer | One who writers his own life or biography. Origin: Auto- + biographer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autobiographic | Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." . Autobiograph"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autobiographical | Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." . Autobiograph"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autobiographist | One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autobiography | Origin: Auto- + biography. A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autoblast | 1. An independent cell. 2. A single, independent microbe, protozoon, or single-celled (acellular) organism. Origin: auto-+ G. Blastos, germ (05 Mar 2000) |
| autocarpian | <botany> Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape. Origin: Auto- + Gr. Fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| autocatalysis | A reaction in which one or more of the products formed acts to catalyze the reaction; beginning slowly, the rate of such a reaction rapidly increases. Compare: chain reaction. Synonym: autoactivation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autocatalytic | A compound that catalyses its own chemical transformation. More commonly a reaction that is catalysed by one of its products or an enzyme catalysed reaction in which one of the products functions as an enzyme activator. (18 Nov 1997) |
| autocatheterization | Passage of a catheter by the patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autocephalous | Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches. Origin: Gr. Independent; self + head. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |