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Jan 12, 2012 This week's theme Words coined using combining forms This week's words duopsony hypochondriac dysthymia autologous gerontology Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg autologous PRONUNCIATION: (ah-TOL-uh-guhs) MEANING: adjective: Involving a situation in which the donor and the recipient (of blood, skin, bone, etc.) are the same person. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek auto- (self) + -logous (as in homologous), from logos (proportion, ratio, word). Earliest documented use: 1911. USAGE: "They talked about autologous fat transfer, where they extract the fat from your behind and stick it in your face -- cheek to cheek, as it were." Isabel Wolff; A Vintage Affair; Bantam; 2010. Explore "autologous" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

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