auto-, aut- +

1. Self-preoccupation to such a degree that no attention is paid to the outside world.
2. Autism.

Self-reproduction; self-replication.

Relating to or believing in autotelism; being an end in itself.

A belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification.

A person pretending to be mystical or mysterious.

1. The doctrine of God’s self-subsistence. The ascription of this attribute to the Second Person of the Trinity, as being “God of himself” and not merely “God of God”.
2. Self-deification.
3. The belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ.
4. Someone who worships himself or herself as a deity.

1. The spontaneous cure of a disease; self cure.
2. The treatment of a disease with filtrates from a patient’s secretions.
3. Treatment of one’s own infirmity (illness).

An organism that regulates its body heat independent of ambient temperature changes.

To cause a body part to undergo autotomy; that is, to shed, cast off, shake off, throw off, throw away, and to drop off.

1. The spontaneous casting off of a limb or other body part, such as the tail of certain lizards or the claw of a lobster, especially when the organism is injured or under attack.
2. The separation of a body part.
3. The self-amputation of a damaged or trapped appendage.
4. The performance of surgery upon oneself.

Someone who cuts his/her own hair or who looks as if he/she cuts his/her own hair.

1. The inability to recognize or correctly orient the parts of one's own body.
2. The inability to localize and name the parts of one's own body; finger agnosia would be autotopagnosia restricted to the fingers.

A disorder of the body image, due to a lesion of the parietal cortex in the nondominant hemisphere, characterized by an inability to relate the parts of one's own body to extrapersonal space often with the consequent loss of topographical orientation.

Sometimes the affected individual is also unable to identify and interrelate to the parts of the body of another individual or even with a model. Also known as: body-image agnosia.

Poisoning by harmful substances generated within the body itself.

A poison that acts on the organism in which it is generated.

The same thing as autointoxication or poisoning by harmful substances generated within the body itself.