auto-, aut- +
(Greek: self, same, spontaneous; directed from within)
autokinesis, autokinesia
Voluntary activity or movement.
Visual autokinesis refers to the illusion that an object in space, especially at night, moves as one continues to look at it. An aviator looking at a distant light may perceive that it has moved even though it is stationary.
autokinetic
Of or relating to voluntary activity or movement.
autolaryngoscopy
A technique that includes the use of a system of mirrors so an observer is able to inspect the interior of his/her own larynx.
autolatry, autolatria
Self worship; the cult of looking out for number one (probably the most practiced cult in the world).
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
—Benjamin Franklin
autolesion
Any self-inflicted injury.
autoleukoagglutinin
An antibody that is capable of clumping white blood cells of an individual in whose serum it is found.
autolith
1. A fragment of igneous rock enclosed in another igneous rock of later consolidation, each being regarded as a derivative from a common parent magma.
2. A round, oval, or elongated accumulation of iron-magnesium minerals of uncertain origin in granitoid rock.
autologophagist, autologophagy
A reference to those who must eat their own words.
autologous
1. From the same organism or deriving from the same individual.
2. Obtained from the same individual as that providing the other constituents of the experiment or study; a reference especially to serum, tissue, cells, etc., that are under immunologic study.
autology
1. The science of understanding oneself.
2. The study of oneself; self-analysis.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
—Agnes Repplier
autoloutrophilist
One who is fond of drinking his/her own bath water.
autoluminescence
Luminescence of a material; such as, a radioactive substance, resulting from energy originating within the material itself.
autolysate
1. The substances produced in the process of tissue autolysis.
2. A substance produced by autolysis.
autolysin
1. Any agent that produces autolysis.
2. A lysin within an organism that has the capacity to destroy cells or tissue from that organism.
autolysis, autodigestion
1. Self-acting disintegration of tissue.
2. The destruction of cells of the body by the action of their own enzymes.
3, Return of a substance to solution, as of phosphate removed from seawater by plankton and returned when these organisms die and decay.
Related-word units meaning same:
equ-;
homeo-;
homo-;
iso-;
pari-;
peer-;
syn-;
tauto-.
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