Endogenous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Produced or growing from within.
  • adj. Originating or produced within an organism, tissue, or cell: endogenous secretions.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. produced, originating or growing from within
  • adj. of a disease, caused by factors within the body
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.
  • adj. Originating from within; increasing by internal growth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In bot.: Of or pertaining to the class of endogens; growing or proceeding from within: as, endogenous trees or plants; endogenous growth.
  • Originating within; internal; specifically, formed within another body, as spores within a sporangium.
  • In anat.: Same as autogenous.
  • Inclosed in a common cavity of the matrix, as cartilage-cells.
  • In geology, formed within a mass of rock or even within the earth itself: especially employed to describe the effects, in contact-metamorphism, produced in the intrusive rock itself, as distinguished from those in the walls.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or resembling an endogen
  • adj. derived or originating internally
  • Antonym
    exogenous   
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