autologous

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ logy +‎ -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.

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