autologous

English

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.

Adjective

autologous (not comparable)

1. Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor).
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 322:

     When she relapsed with metastatic breast cancer after exhausting all conventional therapies, her doctors suggested an autologous bone marrow transplant as a last resort.

Synonyms

• autogeneic

Antonyms

• allogeneic
• allologous

Derived terms

• autologously
• microautologous
• nonautologous

Related terms

• autograft
• autological

See also

• homologous
• heterologous