endogenous

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But the supply of money in Italy is endogenous, and demand-determined.

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  1. adjective Produced or growing from within.
  2. adjective Originating or produced within an organism, tissue, or cell: endogenous secretions.

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  • Note for editors: An orthosteric agonist binds at the same site on a receptor as the endogenous ligand, in this case, glutamate. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Indeed, in contrast with the complete loss of mature miR-124a in Dicer-1 mutants, steady-state levels of endogenous or ectopically expressed mature miR-124a were partially reduced in dfmr1 mutants, whereas the level of pre-miR-124a increased. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • But the supply of money in Italy is endogenous, and demand-determined. —  Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
  • Mainstream theories attribute the alternating periods of boom and bust in the long economic cycles to the metaphorical "invisible hand" of the market mechanism: both upturns and downturns are automatically brought about by purely endogenous, "self-correcting powers" of the market system. —  Dollars & Sense blog
  • Sc infects cells by macropinocytosis and if internalization is necessary for conversion of endogenous PrP —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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/ɛnˈdɑdʒɛnəs/
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