Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Produced from within; self-generating.
  • adjective Medicine Originating with the individual to whom applied.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as autogenous.
  • Self-produced; self-generated; coming forth independently.
  • Same as autogenic. Also autogeneous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Self-generated; produced independently.
  • adjective (Anat.) Developed from an independent center of ossification.
  • adjective Autogenetic.
  • adjective the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

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  • adjective produced independent from an external cause or influence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective originating within the body

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Examples

  • These are specialty shops area you can acquisition an arrangement of aged genitalia from exoteric things like wheels, hoods, grilles, and autogenous genitalia like dashboard instruments, aperture handles, and agent parts.

    Acquisition Aged Auto Parts 2008

  • Evolution of intraflagellar transport from coated vesicles and autogenous origin of the eukaryotic cilium.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Evolution of intraflagellar transport from coated vesicles and autogenous origin of the eukaryotic cilium.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Evolution of intraflagellar transport from coated vesicles and autogenous origin of the eukaryotic cilium.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Evolution of intraflagellar transport from coated vesicles and autogenous origin of the eukaryotic cilium.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Due to the autogenous arrangement of the Castle, the Curator is restricted to a certain extent and had to settle for this type of exhibit.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • North's Garden Furniture (Pty) Ltd (cast aluminium garden furniture) and Pilot Crushtec cc (vertical shaft autogenous crushers to recycle building rubble).

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • These latter mediate both a self-braking and a self-exciting (autogenous excitation) reflex action of the muscle.

    Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Normally the proprioceptives of the contracting muscle put a brake on the speed of the contracting muscle (autogenous inhibition).

    Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • All organisms are in the last resort descendants of autogenous Monera, evolved as a consequence of the divergence of characters through natural selection.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • Karowe was built with an autogenous mill—rocks were placed in a rotating drum, where they cascaded into one another.

    The Woman Shaking Up the Diamond Industry Condé Nast 2020

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