Autologous Definition

ô-tŏlə-gəs
adjective
Derived from the same organism or from one of its parts.
An autologous graft.
Webster's New World
Derived or transferred from the same individual's body.
Autologous blood donation; an autologous bone marrow transplant.
American Heritage Medicine

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

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Origin of Autologous

  • auto– -logous (as in homologous)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From auto- +‎ -logous.

    From Wiktionary

Autologous Sentence Examples

  • Since there is no need for laboratory investigations such as typing and crossmatching, autologous blood is more quickly reinfused than donor blood.

  • In the second type of bone marrow transplant, called an autologous bone marrow transplant, some of the patient's own marrow is taken out and treated with a combination of anticancer drugs to kill all the abnormal cells.

  • Patients undergoing autologous BMT or PBSCT from the initiation of conditioning chemoradiotherapy.

  • Autologous SCT is feasible, safe and can result in complete remission in a significant proportion of patients with tumor stage mycosis fungoides.

  • After screening half a million individual bacterial plaques of each cDNA library with autologous serum, 204 reactive clones were isolated.

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