Definition of Endogenous

1. Adjective. Of or resembling an endogen.

Partainyms: Endogen

2. Adjective. Derived or originating internally.
Exact synonyms: Endogenic
Derivative terms: Endogen
Antonyms: Exogenic, Exogenous

Definition of Endogenous

1. a. 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.

Definition of Endogenous

1. Adjective. produced, originating or growing from within ¹

2. Adjective. of a disease, caused by factors within the body ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Endogenous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Endogenous

1. Developing or originating within the organisms or arising from causes within the organism. Origin: Gr. Gennan = to produce This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endogenous

endogenetic
endogenic
endogenic toxicosis
endogenies
endogenisation
endogenise
endogenised
endogenises
endogenising
endogenization
endogenize
endogenized
endogenizes
endogenizing
endogenote
endogenous (current term)
endogenous creatinine clearance
endogenous cycle
endogenous depression
endogenous fibres
endogenous infection
endogenous pyrogen
endogenous retrovirus
endogenous retroviruses
endogenous virus
endogenously
endogens
endogeny
endoglin
endoglobular

Literary usage of Endogenous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(c) Determination of the Metabolism of endogenous Pur ins We study: 1. the output of endogenous purins in the urine after the patient has been, ..."

2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"The appearance of ordinary wood is very familiar. 135. The newer woody bundles of an endogenous stem are variously intermingled with the old. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Thus •s that the expression of endogenous is a major determining factor in the ... Since endogenous MuLV >n in inbred strains of mice generally ; with age ..."

4. Physiology and biochemistry in modern medicene by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"It has been observed by several investigators that the endogenous purine excretion is ... The endogenous excretion in man is not the same for different ..."

5. Population Policy and Individual Choice: A Theoretical Investigation by Marc Nerlove, Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka (1987)
"Furthermore, the decisionmaking problem of the consumer is now extended to include the number and welfare of offspring (endogenous fertility). ..."

6. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1866)
"Now each thread or bundle of endogenous wood (204) is composed of similar or ... The portion of each endogenous thread, therefore, which looks towards the ..."

7. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"endogenous woods are hardest and most compact at circumferences. ... The stems of endogenous plants are seldom cut up into lumber, but are used in segments, ..."

8. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1865)
"The stems of endogenous plants in the far greater number of cases produce terminal buds ... In many endogenous plants, as in the greater number of grasses, ..."

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