Definition of Autonomic

1. Adjective. Relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system. "Autonomic reflexes"

Category relationships: Physiology
Similar to: Involuntary

Definition of Autonomic

1. a. Having the power of self-government; autonomous.

Definition of Autonomic

1. Adjective. Acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control. ¹

2. Adjective. Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Autonomic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Autonomic

1. Self controlling, functionally independent. (02 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autonomic

automotive technology
automotive vehicle
automount
automounted
automounter
automounters
automounting
automounts
automous
automysophobia
auton
autonomasia
autonomasy
autonomation
autonomations
autonomic (current term)
autonomic agents
autonomic denervation
autonomic disorder
autonomic epilepsy
autonomic ganglia
autonomic ganglion
autonomic hyperreflexia
autonomic imbalance
autonomic motor neuron
autonomic motor neurons
autonomic nerve
autonomic nerve block
autonomic nervous system
autonomic nervous system diseases

Literary usage of Autonomic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(c) The Spinal autonomic Neuron Systems These may be divided into two groups: (a) Tha ... The sacral autonomic neuron systems include (a) vasomotor fibers, ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"General Course of the autonomic Fibers Arising from the Sacral Cord.—The autonomic fibers of this region emerge from the cord in the anterior roots of the ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"General Course of the autonomic Fibers Arising from the Sacral Cord.—The autonomic fibers of this region emerge from the cord in the anterior roots of the ..."

4. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"of the organic group, as, for example, geological subsidence, or causes resulting in transportation to an isolated position. autonomic ..."

5. The Unity of the Organism; Or, The Organismal Conception of Life by William Emerson Ritter (1919)
"We must now follow this subject farther and deal with the somewhat similar phenomena presented by the autonomic nervous system. This subject was treated to ..."

6. Essentials of Physiology by Francis Arthur Bainbridge, James Acworth Menzies (1916)
"When the pressure is relieved, the vaso-motor centre recovers first and the respiratory centre last. SECTION XI THE autonomic SYSTEM In contradistinction to ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"ent autonomic which give rise to reflexes in the autonomic tissues and ... Afferent autonomic fibers are present in all spinal and most cranial nerves: 3. ..."

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