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• Self-cleaning — The act of self-cleaning and its result; a technological feature, automated cycle, or structural ecological process through which an appliance, filter, or natural medium eliminates its accumulated residues and impurities on its own. This property optimizes efficiency, prevents blockages, and extends the lifespan of systems.
• Autoesthesia — The capacity of a living organism or the nervous system to perceive, consciously realize, and sensorially locate its own movements, internal bodily positions, or endogenous (visceral and proprioceptive) stimuli without relying on external senses.
• Autophagy — A fundamental physiological process through which cells isolate, degrade, and recycle their own non-functional components, aged organelles, or degraded macromolecules via lysosomes. This homeostatic mechanism plays a crucial role in cell survival under stress or starvation conditions, in eliminating intracellular pathogens, and in preventing various metabolic or neurodegenerative pathologies.
• Automedon — The name of a renowned character in Greek mythology, son of Diores, famous as the faithful chariot driver and armor-bearer of the hero Achilles during the Trojan War, later taking over the reins for Patroclus as well. In world literature, due to masterful descriptions in Homer's Iliad, his name became an eponymous common noun (automedon) used antonomastically to designate an excellent charioteer, an extremely skillful coachman, or, in modern terms, an expert professional driver.
• Automelia — A rare form of congenital morphological anomaly or teratological monstrosity in insects, characterized by the presence of one or more supernumerary appendages (legs, antennae) abnormally inserted onto their own thoracic or cephalic segments, often as a result of aberrant embryonic division. In structural entomology, this phenomenon is studied to understand homeotic mutations and the genes controlling segmentation and correct body axes development.
• Autonomic — Relating to the vegetative nervous system, responsible for the automatic and involuntary regulation of vital bodily functions (such as heartbeat, digestion, respiration, or glandular secretions); a structural functional system operating independently of conscious voluntary control. In a clinical sense, it denotes the totality of sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers, ganglia, and reflexes that maintain internal homeostasis in response to environmental changes.
• Self-protective — Protecting or having the property to protect oneself against aggressions, risks, errors, or harmful external environmental factors; a system, mechanism, or behavior structurally configured for autonomous self-defense. In psychology, it describes a dysfunctional or adaptive mental screen or barrier utilized by the ego to block emotional distress, whereas in technology it denotes materials or circuits capable of automatic isolation during overload or failure.
• Self-regulate — To automatically adjust, tune, or coordinate one's own functioning, activity, or internal mechanism without the intervention of an external force or factor. It is used both in the technical field to describe systems equipped with feedback loops and in biology to denote the capacity of living organisms to maintain homeostasis relative to the environment.
• Self-regulation — The act of self-regulating and its result; a complex process through which an open system (mechanical, cybernetic, biological, or psychological) maintains its structural and functional stability via internal control mechanisms and feedback loops. In psychology, it denotes an individual's profound capacity to consciously monitor and manage their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to achieve specific goals.
• Motorhome — A motor vehicle specially equipped as a mobile home, fully outfitted with beds, a kitchen, sanitary installations, and utilities required for living during long-distance travels or vacations. Unlike a classic caravan, it is a self-propelled structure integrated directly onto the chassis of a utility vehicle, offering complete autonomy and increased mobility to users.
• Self-treatment — A form of medical treatment or care that an individual administers to themselves at home (through the use of over-the-counter medications, natural remedies, hygienic-sanitary procedures, or physical exercises) without the direct supervision or prescription of a qualified physician. In the psychological sphere, it denotes the use of self-help techniques to correct mild negative emotional moods.
• Courtyard — A regional and archaic term used in the dialects of Banat and Western Transylvania to designate a courtyard, a yard, an enclosure, or a homestead backyard. The word originates via Ottoman filtering from Ancient Greek (aulē), reflecting the traditional spatial organization around rural houses where animals were sheltered and daily domestic activities took place; exceptionally and contextually, it could also describe a fenced perimeter such as a village cemetery.
• Asylum — A public or private institution destined for the sheltering, care, and protection of disadvantaged categories of people, such as the elderly, orphans, or disabled individuals; in a legal and political sense, it represents the right granted by a state to a foreign citizen persecuted for political, religious, or social reasons in their country of origin, offering protection and immunity against extradition.
• Coarse cloth — An old regional term used in certain areas of Transylvania or in archaic Balkan dialects to designate a type of coarse, homespun cloth woven from hemp or wild flax fibers, utilized in making food sacks or rudimentary agricultural tarpaulins.
• Shepherd's wool coat — A regional or archaic term used in certain rural communities of western Romania to designate a long, thick coat made of combed wool or coarse homespun cloth, worn by shepherds to protect themselves from rain and blizzards. Broadly, it can also describe a piece of rough cloth used in leather processing workshops.