autologous

adj

Etymology

From autology + -ous.

Definitions

  1. Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autologous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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