Category: A

  • Avascularization

    Expulsion of blood from tissues, especially the extremities, as in the use of Esmarch’s bandage.  

  • Availability heuristic

    A nonsystematic form of reasoning based on how easily a solution to a problem is encountered in thought rather than in logic or careful analysis.  

  • Auxotrophic

    Requiring a growth factor that is different from that required by the parent organism. Certain organisms may possess distinct nutritional needs, such as an increased demand for growth factors beyond those required by the typical population.    

  • Auxin

    A substance that promotes growth in plant cells and tissues. This substance is able to promote the elongation of cells in vitro experiments conducted on segments of tissue from more complex plants.  

  • Autumn crocus

    The common name for Colchicum autumnale, a perennial lily that produces colchicine, a drug used to treat gout.  

  • Autovaccination

    Vaccination with autogenous vaccine or autovaccine.  

  • Autotransplantation

    Surgical transfer of tissue from one part of the body to another part.  

  • Autotoxin

    Poison generated within the body on which it acts.  

  • Autotomography

    Radiographic tomography in which the patient rather than the x-ray tube is moved. Tomography is achieved by the gradual movement of the patient’s head during the exposure process. This technique was primarily utilized in pneumoencephalography or angiography for diagnostic purposes.  

  • Autosuggestibility

    Peculiar lack of resistance to any suggestion originating in one’s own mind.