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Definition: Autologous |
AutologousAdjective1. Derived from organisms of the selfsame individual; "autologous blood donation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Taken from an individual's own tissues, cells, or DNA. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonyms: heterologous (adj), homologous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Autologous |
| Specialty definitions using "autologous": Alveolar Ridge Augmentation ♦ Blood Patch, Epidural, Bone Marrow Purging ♦ Cerebral Revascularization ♦ Embolization, Therapeutic ♦ Fibrin Tissue Adhesive ♦ Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ♦ Immunomagnetic Separation ♦ Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating ♦ peripheral stem cell transplantation ♦ Self Tolerance, Skeletal Muscle Ventricle ♦ Transplantation, Heterotopic. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Current experience with autologous transfusion is limited to about 2 percent of transfusions in the United States. (references) | |
Autologous transfusion is increasingly used as an alternative to homologous red cell transfusion, especially in the perioperative period. (references) | ||
Recombinant erythropoietin (r-HuEPO) may be useful in avoiding homologous transfusion by increasing the amount of blood available in programs of autologous transfusion. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Autologous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Autologous" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "autologous": autologous bone marrow transplantation ♦ autologous graft ♦ autologous lymphocytes ♦ autologous serum ♦ autologous transfusion ♦ autologous tumor cells. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "autologous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | autoplastik (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty), ublodig venaesectio (autologous transfusion, unbloody bloodletting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | autotransplantatie (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty), autotransfusie (autologous transfusion, unbloody bloodletting), autoplastiek (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | autoplastie (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty), autogreffe (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty), saignée non sanglante (autologous transfusion), greffe autoplastique (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty), greffe autologue (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Autoplastik (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty), unblutiger Aderlass (autologous transfusion, unbloody bloodletting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτόλογος ορός (autologous serum), αυτομετάγγισις αίματος (autologous transfusion, unbloody bloodletting), αυτοπλαστική (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | autotrasfusione (autologous transfusion, unbloody bloodletting), autoplastica (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty), autoinfusione (autologous transfusion, unbloody bloodletting), autoemotrasfusione (autologous transfusion, unbloody bloodletting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | autologousay autoplastia (autograft, autologous graft, autoplasty). (various references) autotransfusión (autologous transfusion, unbloody bloodletting), autoplastia (autoplasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "autologous": tautologous. (additional references) | |
Words containing "autologous": tautologously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-o-o-o-s-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: galoots. | |
-4 letters: august, galoot, gaults, gloats, glouts, outgas. | |
-5 letters: altos, autos, gaols, gault, gloat, glost, glout, gluts, goals, goats, gouts, gusto, logos, loots, lotas, lotos, lotus, louts, luaus, outgo, sault, sotol, stool, talus, togas, tolas, tolus, tools, usual. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-o-o-o-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: tautologous. | |
+3 letters: tautologously. | |
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