AUTONOMOUS
\ɔːtˈɒnəməs], \ɔːtˈɒnəməs], \ɔː_t_ˈɒ_n_ə_m_ə_s]\
Definitions of AUTONOMOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Having independent functions.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Governed by its own laws independent of other organisms, of other parts of the organism, and of external influences.
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Name applied in general to the system of nerve fibers innervating the glands and plain muscles of the body. The fibers of the autonomic system consist of a preganglionic fiber arising in the brain or cord and a postganglionic fiber arising in a sympathetic nerve-cell. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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