Endogenous

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  • adjective. Originating internally.
  • adjective. Originating or produced within an organism, tissue, or cell.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Originating from within; increasing by internal growth.
  • adjective. a method of cell formation, seen in cells having a cell wall. The nucleus and protoplasm divide into two distinct masses; these in turn become divided and subdivided, each division becoming a new cell, until finally the original cell wall is ruptured and the new cells are liberated (see Segmentation, and Illust. of Cell Division, under Division). This mode of growth is characteristic of many forms of cells, both animal and vegetable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. produced, originating or growing from within
  • adjective. of a disease, caused by factors within the body
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or resembling an endogen
  • adjective. derived or originating internally
  • Word Usage
    "And as I said, thank goodness it was time-limited, but it made me realize that there are people who are suffering with what we call endogenous depression."
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