Definitions

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

  • adjective Derived or transferred from the same individual's body.

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  • adjective Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than the donor)

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  • adjective derived from organisms of the selfsame individual

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[auto– + -logous (as in homologous).]

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From auto- + -logous

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Examples

  • Aastrom, Baxter, NeoStem and Cytori Therapeutics Inc use cells taken from a patient's own body in what is known as an autologous transfer.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Aastrom, Baxter, NeoStem and Cytori Therapeutics Inc use cells taken from a patient's own body in what is known as an autologous transfer.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • Provenge is designed to stimulate the body's immune system to combat tumors, also known as autologous cellular immunotherapy.

    Dendreon Names New CEO Peter Loftus 2012

  • The chemotherapeutic equivalent of that surgical assault—of eviscerating the body and replacing it with an implant—was a procedure known as autologous bone marrow transplant, or ABMT, which roared into national and international prominence in the mid-1980s.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Donnall Thomas, had shown that bone marrow, much like a kidney or liver, could be harvested from one patient and transplanted back—either into the same patient (called autologous transplantation) or into another patient (termed allogeneic transplantation).

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Donnall Thomas, had shown that bone marrow, much like a kidney or liver, could be harvested from one patient and transplanted back—either into the same patient (called autologous transplantation) or into another patient (termed allogeneic transplantation).

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The chemotherapeutic equivalent of that surgical assault—of eviscerating the body and replacing it with an implant—was a procedure known as autologous bone marrow transplant, or ABMT, which roared into national and international prominence in the mid-1980s.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The chemotherapeutic equivalent of that surgical assault—of eviscerating the body and replacing it with an implant—was a procedure known as autologous bone marrow transplant, or ABMT, which roared into national and international prominence in the mid-1980s.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Donnall Thomas, had shown that bone marrow, much like a kidney or liver, could be harvested from one patient and transplanted back—either into the same patient (called autologous transplantation) or into another patient (termed allogeneic transplantation).

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • JONATHAN GLASHOW, ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON: Platelet-rich plasma or sometimes called autologous condition plasma which means taking your own blood and taking a fraction of that blood and putting it in the area where it's most needed.

    CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009 2009

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