exogenous

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English

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Etymology

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From exo- +‎ -genous.

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exogenous (not comparable)

  1. Having an external cause.
    1. (biology) Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
      Synonym: xenobiotic
    2. (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
    3. (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
    4. (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
    5. (databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
  2. (biology, dermatology, uncommon) Related to the exogen growth phase.

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