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Autologous

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor). not-comparable

    "When she relapsed with metastatic breast cancer after exhausting all conventional therapies, her doctors suggested an autologous bone marrow transplant as a last resort."

Adjective
  1. 1
    derived from organisms of the selfsame individual wordnet

Etymology

From autology + -ous.

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