DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Omeprazole is in a class of drugs called proton pump inhibitors (PPI) that block the production of acid by the stomach. Other drugs in the class include lansoprazole (Prevacid), rabeprazole (Aciphex), pantoprazole (Protonix), and esomeprazole (Nexium).
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Autonomy(noun) the power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state. Autonomy(noun) the sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself.
Independence is the state of being free of the control of some other person, country or entity. Revolutions are all about obtaining independence, most famously perhaps the Revolutionary War in America, which led to America's freedom from Britain.