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Jan 12, 2012
This week's themeWords coined using combining forms This week's words duopsony hypochondriac dysthymia autologous gerontology 
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with Anu Gargautologous
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. See more usage examples of autologous in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. 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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