auto-, aut- +

Catheterization of oneself, especially urinary catheterization (use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity for injecting or withdrawing fluids for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes).

1. Of a church, having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches are.
2. Of a bishop, subordinate to no superior church authority; self governing.

The state of being autocephalous or having no superior authority; being self-governing.

Spontaneous invagination of the gallbladder into the duodenum with formation of an opening between the two organs.

Spontaneous invagination of the gallbladder into the transverse colon with formation of an opening between the two organs.

A species in which some action of the parent plant is the chief force for dissemination, e.g., the mechanical projection of seeds as the jewelweed.

1. Having motile spores or propagules disseminated by the action of the parent plant.
2. Distribution by projection by the species itself.

An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.

1. The earliest known inhabitants of a place, or earliest known dwellers in any country; an aborigine.
2. Someone who is supposed to have risen, or have sprung, from the ground, or the soil he is currently inhabiting; a "son of the soil".

This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

3. That which is original to a particular country, or which had its origin there.
4. Original inhabitants or products.
5. In ecology, an indigenous plant or animal.
6. In geology, a geological formation formed in the region where it is found.

Originating where it is found: "The autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo."

A reference to anything that originates where it is found.

1. Originating where found; indigenous: autochthonous rocks; an autochthonous people; autochthonous folktales.
2. In biology, originating or formed in the place where found: an autochthonous blood clot.

1. Native to the place inhabited; indigenous.
2. Originating in the place where found.
3. A reference to a disease originating in the part of the body where found, or of a disease acquired in the place where the patient is.
4. In psychology, of or pertaining to ideas that arise independently of the individual's own train of thought and seem instead to have some alien or external agency as their source.

1. Originating where found; indigenous: autochthonous rocks; an autochthonous people; autochthonous folktales.
2. In biology, originating or formed in the place where found; such as, an autochthonous blood clot.
3. Nativeness by virtue or originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place).

Controlling or eradicating populations of noxious insects by reducing their capacity to produce viable or fertile offspring; as by the introduction of sterile males.