"autologous" meaning in English

See autologous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From auto- + logy + -ous. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|auto|logy|ous}} auto- + logy + -ous Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} autologous (not comparable)
  1. Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor). Wikipedia link: autologous Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: autogeneic Derived forms: microautologous Related terms: autograft, homologous, heterologous

Download JSON data for autologous meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "allogeneic"
    },
    {
      "word": "allologous"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "auto",
        "3": "logy",
        "4": "ous"
      },
      "expansion": "auto- + logy + -ous",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From auto- + logy + -ous.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "autologous (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with auto-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ous",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "microautologous"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 322",
          "text": "When she relapsed with metastatic breast cancer after exhausting all conventional therapies, her doctors suggested an autologous bone marrow transplant as a last resort.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor)."
      ],
      "id": "en-autologous-en-adj-XYdE~nLf",
      "links": [
        [
          "individual",
          "individual"
        ],
        [
          "recipient",
          "recipient"
        ],
        [
          "donor",
          "donor"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "autograft"
        },
        {
          "word": "homologous"
        },
        {
          "word": "heterologous"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "autogeneic"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "autologous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "autologous"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "allogeneic"
    },
    {
      "word": "allologous"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "microautologous"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "auto",
        "3": "logy",
        "4": "ous"
      },
      "expansion": "auto- + logy + -ous",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From auto- + logy + -ous.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "autologous (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "autograft"
    },
    {
      "word": "homologous"
    },
    {
      "word": "heterologous"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with auto-",
        "English terms suffixed with -ous",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 322",
          "text": "When she relapsed with metastatic breast cancer after exhausting all conventional therapies, her doctors suggested an autologous bone marrow transplant as a last resort.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "individual",
          "individual"
        ],
        [
          "recipient",
          "recipient"
        ],
        [
          "donor",
          "donor"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "autologous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "autogeneic"
    }
  ],
  "word": "autologous"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.