autonomy
— Noun
– English
～ immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
autophyte
— Noun
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～ plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
autopilot
— Noun
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～ a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness; "she went about her chores on automatic pilot"; "too much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot"; "she talked and he dozed and my mind went on autopilot"
autopilot
— Noun
– English
～ a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course
autoplasty
— Noun
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～ tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person; "skin from his thigh replaced the burned skin on his arms"
autoplasty
— Noun
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～ surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body
autopsy
— Noun
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～ an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
autoradiograph
— Noun
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～ a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed
autoradiography
— Noun
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～ producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed
autoregulation
— Noun
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～ (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism
autosexing
— Noun
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～ (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching
autosome
— Noun
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～ any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa
autostrada
— Noun
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～ an expressway in an Italian-speaking country
autosuggestion
— Noun
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～ a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s
autotelism
— Noun
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～ belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification
autotomy
— Noun
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～ spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack
autotroph
— Noun
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～ plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
autotype
— Noun
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～ an exact copy or reproduction
autotype
— Noun
– English
～ process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment