autophagousadj.

1873 A. Wilson Elements Zool. xxvi. 460 The young typically exemplify the Autophagous section of the class, in that they are, immediately after birth, comparatively independent of the parents' care and support.

1884 Nature 13 Mar. 461/1 The albumen of the eggs of the Insessores..notably differs from that of the Autophagous birds (hens, ducks, geese, turkeys).

1941 Philos. Sci. 8 78 Certain birds, especially autophagous species, will attach themselves from the very beginning only to grown-up individuals of their own kind.

1975 Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. B. 52 419/2 We decided to compare putrescine and polyamine changes..in the brains of newborns and adults of some..autophagous and heterophagous birds and mammals.

2004 J. Fjeldså Grebes ix. 94/2 Such birds invest all their energy at once in large high-energy eggs, which give rise to autophagous chicks.

1876 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. July 377 But as the disease goes on, the patient becomes (as it has been called by Continental writers) ‘autophagous’; i.e., the excessive excretion of sugar is maintained, not only by the increased supply in the shape of food, but by the gradual invasion of the tissues.

1904 A. Fournier in J. J. Pringle Pict. Atlas Skin Dis. (ed. 2) 25 They are autophagous, and their ulceration takes place at the expense of their own pathological neoplasm, not of that of the surrounding healthy parts.

1919 J. A. Thomson Secrets Animal Life 170 The prawn may be seen to tug at the limb with its jaws, thus harking back towards autophagy.

1946 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 40 529 The situation thus presented results..especially from inclusion within it of the nonsensical veto system, autophagous in relation to the settlement of disputes.

1982 PMLA 97 338/2 Both are autophagous and monstrous images of generative consummation perverted into degenerative consumption.

1992 Discover Feb. 37/2 The beak of an octopus, however, helps to ensure that an autophagous outburst is a deadly one.

1970 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 44 70/2 Occasional ovoid mitochondria have been observed that are partially or completely encircled by a cisterna of agranular reticulum, which may indicate a stage of autophagous vacuole formation.

1983 Neuroscience 10 955/2 The degenerated and labelled axons exhibit the characteristic signs of acute degeneration of autonomic fibers.., i.e. clear axoplasm, and the presence of autophagous cytolysosomes and myelin bodies.

2000 A. P. Sinai in J. P. Nataro et al. Persistent Bacterial Infections iii. 41/2 The autophagous pathway is known to intersect the endocytic pathway, as autophagous vacuoles generally fuse with lysosomes, promoting the degradation of their contents.