autacoid. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

autacoid

SYLLABICATION:	au·ta·coid
PRONUNCIATION:	ôt-koid
VARIANT FORMS:	also au·to·coid
NOUN:	An organic substance, such as a hormone, produced in one part of an organism and transported by the blood, lymph, or sap to another part of the organism where it exerts a physiologic effect on that part.
ETYMOLOGY:	aut(o)– + Greek akos, cure + –oid.
OTHER FORMS:	auta·coidal (-koidl) —ADJECTIVE


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