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Definition of Autotomy
1. Noun. Spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack.
Definition of Autotomy
1. Noun. spontaneous removal of a limb, tail etc, especially by some invertebrates as a self-defense mechanism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Autotomy
1. the shedding of a damaged body part [n -MIES]
Medical Definition of Autotomy
1. The act of casting off a body part as a means of escape; e.g., the limb of a crab or the tail of a lizard. Origin: auto-+ G. Tome, a cutting (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autotomy
Literary usage of Autotomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"ON THE CAUSE OF autotomy IN TUBULARIA. OSCAR RIDDLE. In the course of studies on
the oxidizing and reducing powers of the various tissues and body regions ..."
2. Regeneration by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1901)
"autotomy • The process of autotomy differs only in degree from the process of
self-division. In autotomy the part thrown off does not produce a new animal. ..."
3. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Glaser, 0[tto] C. autotomy, regeneration and natural selection. Science, New
York, NY, (N. Ser.), 20, 1904, (149-153). ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"autotomy.—Professor Morgan regards the process of autotomy as a fatal stumbling
block for the theory of natural selection. ..."
5. Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research by Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1916)
"These experiments gave no definite results, as autotomy was produced with some
individuals and not with others; and even in the first instances autotomy was ..."
6. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"autotomy. — Perhaps the most interesting morphological structure connected with
... This breaking off of the legs at a definite point is known as autotomy, ..."
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