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What does exogenous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having an external cause.
    1. (biology) Produced or originating outside of an organism.
    2. (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
    3. (medicine) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
    4. (economics) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
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Endogenous retroviruses are the proviral form of exogenous retroviruses that have become integrated into the germ line of the host.
Once again, it is endogenous, not exogenous factors that make or break a relationship.
Other tastes, not necessarily exogenous, often superceded the desire for financial gain.
On many issues, Latin Americans continue to be highly vulnerable to exogenous events, trends and decisions.
The most common form of vitamin K2 in animals is menaquinone 4, produced by the processing of exogenous and bacterial naphthoquinones.
Abrupt withdrawal of exogenous glucocorticoids may precipitate an adrenal crisis.

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