| 单词 | exogenous |
| 释义 | exogenous (once / 83235 pages) adj Something that's exogenous comes from somewhere else, from outside. If your village practices exogenous marriage, you'll need to find a mate from another village, one outside your own. Exogenous is the opposite of endogenous. If your village traditions favor endogenous marriage, you’ll marry somebody from your own village. In biology and medicine, especially psychiatry, the word exogenous is used to describe outside factors, something that originates from outside the organism. When you're identifying causes of disease, toxins in your environment would be exogenous causes (they come from outside you), while genetic predisposition (something inside you) would be considered an endogenous cause. WORD FAMILYexogenous: exogenously USAGE EXAMPLESEven if an investor correctly predicts a political outcome without exogenous factors taking over, it doesn’t mean financial markets will behave accordingly. Wall Street Journal(Oct 05, 2016) Barring an exogenous shock, a reversion to the mean appears likely. Wall Street Journal(Aug 29, 2016) Now, the exogenous force is the long arm of the ECB. Wall Street Journal(Aug 25, 2016) adj derived or originating externally Syn|Ant exogenic endogenic, endogenous derived or originating internally |
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