| 释义 |
exogenic, a.|ɛksəʊˈdʒɛnɪk|
[f. exo- + -genic.]
Exogenetic.
1. Med. Of a disease.
1900Gould Pocket Med. Dict. (ed. 4) 246 Exogenic, exogenous. See Exogenetic. 1961Lancet 23 Sept. 706/1 During the epidemic stage the study of an exogenic factor would be complicated by various confusing factors—social and immunological as well as virological.
2. Geol. = exogenetic a. 2 b. Chiefly U.S.
1942O. D. von Engeln Geomorphology iv. 56 Some of the relief features..result from external, that is, exogenic, forces and processes. 1954W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. ii. 19 In general, the endogenic processes tend to build up or restore areas which have been worn down by the exogenic processes. 1961[see exogenetic a. 2 b]. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 309/1 In geomorphology, one may distinguish structural land forms (endogenic) from denudational land forms (exogenic). |