exogenous

English

Etymology

From exo- +‎ -genous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsɒd͡ʒ.ə.nəs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsɑ.d͡ʒə.nəs/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ekˈsɔd͡ʒ.ə.nəs/

Adjective

exogenous (not comparable)

1. Having an external cause.
   2. (biology) Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.

      Synonym: xenobiotic

   3. (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
   4. (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
   5. (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
   6. (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.

Synonyms

• exogenetic

Antonyms

• endogenous

Related terms

• exogeny
• exogeneity
• exogenousity

Translations

Produced or originating outside of an organism.

• Catalan: exogen (ca) m
• Czech: exogenní (cs), ektogenní (cs), zevní
• German: exogen (de)
• Kazakh: экзогенді (ékzogendı), экзогендік (ékzogendık), сыртқы (syrtqy)
• Portuguese: exógeno (pt) m
• Russian: экзоге́нный (ru) (ekzogénnyj)
• Spanish: exógeno
• Swedish: exogen (sv)

Having a cause external to the infected organism

• Catalan: exogen (ca) m
• Czech: exogenní (cs), zevní, vnější (cs)
• German: exogen (de)
• Portuguese: exógeno (pt) m
• Spanish: exógeno

An exogenous change is one that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.

• Czech: exogenní (cs), zevní, vnější (cs)
• German: exogen (de)