Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having an origin from internal causes: as, endogenetic diseases.
- Formed directly from solutions, as a rock, whether from silicate solutions (igneous magmas), aqueous solutions, or gaseous solutions (sublimation), including those formed through organic agencies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Relating to or arising from an internal process; same as
endogenous . - adjective (Geol.) Relating to the interior of the earth; of or pertaining to a metamorphic process occurring within a planet. Opposed to
exogenetic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology
endogenous
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- adjective of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth
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Examples
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They differed, however, from this, in being accompanied by clear consciousness, and in not being endogenetic in their occurrence, but distinctive reactive manifestations to definite situations.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
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Siefert [9] was the first to clearly differentiate the purely endogenetic disorders from those dependent upon a degenerative soil, and evoked exclusively by outside influences.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
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i hav endogenetic health problms, my parents loves me so much n they cnt see me in this situation. wat shud i do? en Español
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