[aw-tok-thuh-nuh
s] 
| 1. | pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous ). |
| 2. | Pathology.
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| 3. | Psychology. of or pertaining to ideas that arise independently of the individual's own train of thought and seem instead to have some alien or external agency as their source. |
| 4. | Geology. (of rocks, minerals, etc.) formed in the region where found. Compare allochthonous. |
[aw-tok-thon-ik] .autochthonous au·toch·tho·nous (ô-tŏk'thə-nəs)
adj.
Native to the place inhabited; indigenous.
Originating in the place where found. Used of a disease originating in the part of the body where found, or of a disease acquired in the place where the patient is.