auto-, aut- +

1. Another form of suicide; that is, “self-killing” or “killing one’s self”.
2. Someone has suggested that it means “suicide by crashing one’s automobile”; however, the “auto” in autocide refers to “self” not the auto- in automobile.
3. Despite the above information, some dictionaries define this term as, "suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving."

Voluntary self-movement.

1. Tissue destruction to an autoimmune reaction.
2. A breaking up or rupturing from intrinsic or internal causes.
3. Progressive immunologically induced tissue destruction.

Destruction of a part due to conditions within a part of the body.

Broken in place, said of rocks having a broken or brecciated (rocks with sharp-angled fragments) structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

1. Using a strong, pressurized, steam-heated vessel, as for laboratory experiments, sterilization, or cooking.
2. Operating a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments.
3. To place into or to put into an autoclave.

1. An automatically regulated apparatus for the sterilization of objects by steam under pressure.
2. A device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments.

A surgical clip applied with an automatic staple. It is usually employed for wound closure in place of a suture.

This is a proprietary name (the patented brand name or trademark under which a manufacturer markets a product).

An organic substance; such as, a hormone, produced in one part of an organism and transported by the blood, lymph, or sap to another part of the organism where it exerts a physiologic effect on that part.

In optics, the process used in an autocollimator.

An instrument combining the functions of a telescope and a collimator for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light. A collimator is a fixed telescope for use in collimating or adjusting the line of sight (of a telescope).

1. A reference to an organism that consumes its own feces.
2. The action of an organism that eats its own excretion.

In statistics, a property displayed by some sequences of adjacent items not being independent of each other.

Autocorrelation is a mathematical tool used frequently in signal processing for analyzing functions or series of values; such as, time domain signals. It is the cross-correlation of a signal with itself.

Autocorrelation is useful for finding repeating patterns in a signal; such as, determining the presence of a periodic signal that has been buried under noise, or identifying the fundamental frequency of a signal which doesn't actually contain that frequency component, but implies it with many harmonic frequencies.

1. Absolute government.
2. A government in which one person has unrestricted control over others.
3. In medicine, the controlling influence exerted by nature or the vital principle on disease.

A monarch of uncontrolled authority; an absolute, governor; one who rules with undisputed sway: “Autocrat of all the Russias”, a title of the Tsar of Russia.