Category: A

  • Autopsychosis

    Mental disease in which patient’s ideas about themselves are disordered.  

  • Autopsychic

    Aware of one’s own personality.  

  • Autoprecipitin

    Precipitin active against the serum of the animal in which it was formed.  

  • Autopolyploidy

    The condition of having more than two complete sets of chromosomes.  

  • Autophony

    The vibration and echolike reproduction of one’s own voice, breath sounds, and murmurs; usually due to diseases of the middle ear and auditory tube.  

  • Autophil

    A person who has a sensitive autonomic nervous system.  

  • Autophagocytosis

    In a cell, the digestion of portions of cell organelles or mitochondria injured or atrophied. This digestive process is essential to the survival of the cell.  

  • AutoPap

    An automated (computerized) method of screening and analyzing Pap smears for abnormal cells.  

  • Autonomous

    Independent of external influences.  

  • Autonomic dysreflexia

    The state in which a person with a spinal cord injury at T7 or above experiences a life-threatening uninhibited sympathetic response of the nervous system to a noxious stimulus.