Definition of "autologous" []

• Derived or transferred from the same individual's body: autologous blood donation; an autologous bone marrow transplant. (adjective)

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• "Aastrom, Baxter, NeoStem and Cytori Therapeutics Inc use cells taken from a patient's own body in what is known as an autologous transfer."
• "Provenge is designed to stimulate the body's immune system to combat tumors, also known as autologous cellular immunotherapy."
• "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."