auto-, aut-

1. Image of the distribution and concentration of radioactivity in a tissue or other substance made by placing a photographic emulsion on the surface of, or in close proximity to, the substance.
2. An image recorded on a photographic film or plate produced by the radiation emitted from a specimen; such as, a section of tissue, which has been treated or injected with a radioactively labeled isotope or that has absorbed or ingested; such an, isotope.

A principal highway, especially in France and French-speaking Canada.

Wound closure using strands of tissue cut from the margin of the wound.

Anything that is extemporized by an individual.

The phenomenon of seeing one's double, usually in the form of a hazy face and upper torso that mimics one's own gestures and expressions. It may be a symptom of temporoparietal pathology.

Also called autoscopic phenomenon and autoscopic hallucination.

To make sensitive to the body's own tissues; subject to autosensitizaton.

1. Septicemia originating with microorganisms existing within the individual and not introduced from outside the person.
2. Septicemia arising from microorganisms within the body; also endosepsis.

The treatment of certain conditions, such as dermatoses, by injection of the patient’s own blood serum; also autotherapy.

The usually larger component of abnormal, unequally conjoined twins that is able to live independently and nourish the other parasitic component.

Pertaining to or of the nature of an autosite.

Smelling one's own body odor.

1. The sensation that an amputated portion of the body is still present.
2. A patient's lack of awareness of a bodily defect, as in the phantom limb of an amputee.

A reference to autosomatognosis or the sensation that a person has that an amputated portion of his or her body is still present.

A chromosome other than a sex chromosome (one that determines sex), normally occurring in pairs in somatic cells and singly in gametes in spermatozoa.

The belief that one can obtain salvation through oneself.