autologous

IPA: ɔtˈɑɫʌgʌs

Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor).

Examples of "autologous" in Sentences

Provenge is designed to stimulate the body's immune system to combat tumors, also known as autologous cellular immunotherapy.
Aastrom, Baxter, NeoStem and Cytori Therapeutics Inc use cells taken from a patient's own body in what is known as an autologous transfer.
JONATHAN GLASHOW, ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON: Platelet-rich plasma or sometimes called autologous condition plasma which means taking your own blood and taking a fraction of that blood and putting it in the area where it's most needed.
Donnall Thomas, had shown that bone marrow, much like a kidney or liver, could be harvested from one patient and transplanted back—either into the same patient (called autologous transplantation) or into another patient (termed allogeneic transplantation).
The chemotherapeutic equivalent of that surgical assault—of eviscerating the body and replacing it with an implant—was a procedure known as autologous bone marrow transplant, or ABMT, which roared into national and international prominence in the mid-1980s.