a. [f. prec. + -OUS.] a. Growing from within. b. Path. (see quot. 1883). c. Of or pertaining to an ENDOGEN.

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  Hence Endogenously adv., in an endogenous manner.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., Introd. 20. Palms, which are endogenous in the strictest sense of the word.

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1856.  Emerson, Eng. Traits, Relig., Wks. (Bohn), II. 100. No chemist has prospered in the attempt to crystallize a religion. It is endogenous, like the skin.

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1874.  Lubbock, Wild Flowers, iii. 48. Endogenous plants … are those in which the bud is developed from a sheath-like cavity on one side of the cotyledon.

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1876.  trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 250. Oser also holds to the endogenous formation of cells. Ibid. The endogenously formed pus-corpuscle is born in the conjunctiva of the rabbit like a young trout.

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1883.  Fortn. Rev., 1 Aug., 177. An endogenous contagion is one that passes direct from the sick body to the sound.

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