autogenesis (atojenesis)

[ There was no doubt of the existence of autogenetic Brit. Med. Jour., No. 1319. puerperal fever. auto genetically (atō-jē-net'i-kal-i), adv. By autogenesis, or autogenetic proce es. Some septic poison, either from without or auto genet i cally , might cause the same. Brit. Med. Jour ., No. 1319. autog autogenic (a-tō-jenik), a. [As autogen - ous +-ic.] Self-produced; produced; independent of a medium: specifically applied to a proce of soldering in which pieces of metal are united by fusing the parts to be joined. See autoge autocratrix (a-tok'ra-triks), n .; pl. autocrat rices (a-tok-ra-tri'sēz). [NL. (cf. MGr. αὐτοκρατό- au ρισσα), fem. of autocrat or .] A female sovereign who is independent and absolute: a title some- times given to a reigning empre of Ru ia. [Rare.] autocrat ship (a'to-krat-ship), n. + -ship .] The office of autocrat. auto da fe (ou'to da fā); pl. autos da fe (ou'tos). [ Pg . auto da fé = Sp. auto de fe (Pg. da , de a , where a is the fem. art., ill a ).] Same as [ autocrat nous . Platinum workers... have long learned to unite two platinum seams by the autogenic proce -the local fusing of the two contiguous parts in the oxyhydrogen Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 190, flame. autogenous