Exogenous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Biology Derived or developed from outside the body; originating externally.
  • adj. Botany Characterized by the addition of layers of woody tissue.
  • adj. Medicine Having a cause external to the body. Used of diseases.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. produced or originating outside of an organism
  • adj. of a disease: having an external cause
  • adj. of information: received from outside a group
  • adj. descriptive of a group created by public as opposed to private information
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. derived from or originating outside; pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.
  • adj. Growing by addition to the exterior; growing by addition of a new external layer of cells on the surface just beneath the bark; -- of plants.
  • adj. Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous.
  • adj. caused by factors from outside the body, rather than from an abnormality of internal functions; -- of illness.
  • adj. not synthesized within the organism; absorbed or assimilated from outside the organism.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Growing by additions on the outside; specifically, in botany, belonging to or characteristic of the class of exogens.
  • Produced on the outside, as the spores of hyphomycetous and many other fungi; growing out from some part: specifically applied in anatomy to those processes of a vertebra which have no independent ossific centers of their own, but are mere outgrowths.
  • In geology, applied by Von Humboldt to extrusive, volcanic rocks, in contrast to endogenous rocks. See endogenous, 3.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. derived or originating externally
    • Antonym
    autogenous    endogenous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    exogenetic   
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    endogenous    microbial    recombinant    cell-surface    glycolipid   
     
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