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Etymology
Etymology tree English autology Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English autologous From autology + -ous.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor).
When she relapsed with metastatic breast cancer after exhausting all conventional therapies, her doctors suggested an autologous bone marrow transplant as a last resort.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 322:
Antonyms
Deriveds
nonautologous · microautologous · autologously
Relateds
autological · homologous · heterologous · autograft