Category: A
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Autopsychosis
Mental disease in which patient’s ideas about themselves are disordered.
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Autopsychic
Aware of one’s own personality.
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Autoprecipitin
Precipitin active against the serum of the animal in which it was formed.
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Autopolyploidy
The condition of having more than two complete sets of chromosomes.
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Autophony
The vibration and echolike reproduction of one’s own voice, breath sounds, and murmurs; usually due to diseases of the middle ear and auditory tube.
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Autophil
A person who has a sensitive autonomic nervous system.
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Autophagocytosis
In a cell, the digestion of portions of cell organelles or mitochondria injured or atrophied. This digestive process is essential to the survival of the cell.
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AutoPap
An automated (computerized) method of screening and analyzing Pap smears for abnormal cells.
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Autonomous
Independent of external influences.
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Autonomic dysreflexia
The state in which a person with a spinal cord injury at T7 or above experiences a life-threatening uninhibited sympathetic response of the nervous system to a noxious stimulus.