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endogenous, a.|ɛnˈdɒdʒɪnəs|
[f. endogen + -ous.]
a. Growing from within.
b. Path. (see quot. 1883).
c. Of or pertaining to an endogen.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot, Introd. 20 Palms, which are endogenous in the strictest sense of the word. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Relig. Wks. (Bohn) II. 100 No chemist has prospered in the attempt to crystallize a religion. It is endogenous, like the skin. 1874Lubbock Wild Flowers iii. 48 Endogenous plants..are those in which the bud is developed from a sheath-like cavity on one side of the cotyledon. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 250 Oser also holds to the endogenous formation of cells.
d. Geol. Formed within a mass of rock, or within the earth's surface; spec. applied to intrusive rock changed by contact with surrounding rocks.
1845A. Prichard tr. von Humboldt's κοσµος I. 452, I entitled (1832) the plutonic and volcanic eruptive rocks endogenous (that which is engendered in the interior,) the sedimentary and flœtz rocks exogenous, (externally engendered). 1859D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms, Endogenites, fossil stems and fragments exhibiting the endogenous structure are so termed. 1878T. S. Hunt Chem. & Geol. Ess. (ed. 2) xi. 196 The endogenous character of this granite is well shown by its banded structure. 1890Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. I. 48 The growth of the continent, so far as through marine waters, may be said to have been endogenous. It began to be exogenous on the Atlantic side in the Cretaceous era. 1954W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphology xix. 488 Volcanism arises from forces which are endogenous in nature and are produced by physical and chemical changes taking place in the earth's interior.
e. Psychiatry. Applied to disorders originating within the individual.
1925G. V. T. Hamilton Introd. Obj. Psychopath. ix. 283 Conjointly acting exogenous and endogenous stimuli..may..lead to seriously morbid habits of indirect reaction. 1962Lancet 29 Dec. 1341/1 Genetic factors are known to be important in the ætiology of so-called endogenous depressions, the predisposition being inherited, and the depressive illness often being precipitated by other factors which may be physical or exogenous.
Hence enˈdogenously adv., in an endogenous manner.
1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 250 The endogenously formed pus-corpuscle is born in the conjunctiva of the rabbit like a young trout. 1883Fortn. Rev. 1 Aug. 177 An endogenous contagion is one that passes direct from the sick body to the sound. |