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Exogenous
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exogenous [‚ek′säj·ə·nəs]
(biology)
Due to an external cause; not arising within the organism.
Growing by addition to the outer surfaces.
(physiology)
Pertaining to those factors in the metabolism of nitrogenous substances obtained from food.

Exogenous 

in botany, a term referring to the development of lateral organs in the peripheral cell layers of the main axis of a particular plant organ. Examples of exogenous organs are the leaves that develop in the form of external nodes on the growing point of shoots, root hairs (which are lateral growths of root integuments), and some epidermal growths (trichotomes) of a plant’s aboveground organs.



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One bedrock principle of neoclassical economics is that absolute-price changes are neutral to any real decisions: if all prices exogenously doubled, then no relative trade-off would change so no one would behave differently.
Exogenously administered surfactant that reaches the alveolar space can be recycled into the type II cells and form a surfactant pool to regulate surface tension.
In this partial approach, we assume that all clubs, at the start of the season, decide on the number of talents, with an exogenously given ticket price and proportionality factor ([k.
 
 
 
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