Autoinoculation

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Autoinoculation is derived from the Latin root words "autos" and "inoculate" that mean "self implanting" or "self infection" or "implanting something from oneself". [1] [2] Autoinoculation can refer to both beneficial medical procedures (e.g. vaccination) as well as non-beneficial or harmful natural processes (e.g. infection or disease). One beneficial autoinoculation medical procedure is when cells are removed from a person's body, medically altered then reinserted ("implanted" or "infected") into the same organism or person again to achieve some diagnostic or treatment aim. [3]

References

  1. "Auto - Wiktionary". 19 January 2023.
  2. "Inoculate - Wiktionary". 17 January 2023.
  3. US National Library of Medicine. URL last accessed August 27, 2011.
  4. American Family Physician