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单词 exogenous
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Definition of exogenous in English:

exogenous

adjective ɛkˈsɒdʒɪnəsɪkˈsɒdʒɪnəsˌɛkˈsɑdʒənəs
  • 1Having an external cause or origin.

    technological changes exogenous to the oil industry
    Often contrasted with endogenous
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are supposed to move like a pendulum: they may be dislocated by external forces, so-called exogenous shocks, but they will seek to return to the equilibrium position.
    • As predicted, many get there because of so-called exogenous shocks: a major media announcement, a celebrity endorsement, a dignitary's death.
    • In modern times, all significant bouts of inflation have been generated by a war or exogenous oil price shocks, not by a peacetime economy that expanded beyond its sustainable limits.
    • He said that while there are a few indigenous reasons like genes, heredity etc for obesity, there are more exogenous reasons for the problem.
    • External or exogenous factors were a threat to the monetary stability achieved in 1999.
    • This is an important claim because it challenges conventional wisdom that the oil shocks were driven by exogenous political events in the Middle East.
    • Once again, it is endogenous, not exogenous factors that make or break a relationship.
    • ‘These could be treated as exogenous but this might be misleading’.
    • In stabilizing broad measures of economic volatility, it serves to decrease exogenous risk in the markets and the economy.
    • Rational choice theory views actors as rational insofar as they act instrumentally, are utility maximizers, possess stable and exogenous preferences, and are self-interested.
    • Other tastes, not necessarily exogenous, often superceded the desire for financial gain.
    • However, the building of excess capacity is not inevitable and is not driven by exogenous factors, such as external control of markets.
    • This theory stipulates that people are motivated by calculations of abstract utility in a cost-benefit framework, informed by exogenous tastes and preferences.
    • Also, the country remains vulnerable to exogenous shocks.
    • Consider that most recessions are the result of exogenous shocks: the oil crisis of 1973, the credit controls of 1980, and, of course, the war.
    • The only things that have changed since the start of the peace process have been, as it were, exogenous variables.
    • On many issues, Latin Americans continue to be highly vulnerable to exogenous events, trends and decisions.
    • Before 1815, depressions were caused primarily by exogenous shocks, that is, by forces external to the economy such as wars, widespread crop failures, or other disasters.
    • What we don't find is any sense in which religion is an exogenous variable, an autonomous force that floats above the social landscape and mysteriously bends the minds of men to its will.
    • Citizens found themselves squeezed to suffocation in one way or another between domestic repression and exogenous vilification.
    1. 1.1Biology Growing or originating from outside an organism.
      〔生〕外生的;外源的
      an exogenous hormone

      外激素。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Transgenesis refers to the process of introducing exogenous genes into the germ line of an organism.
      • Furthermore, laboratory studies of the uptake of exogenous chromosomal DNA in bacteria have also demonstrated that recombination can mediate the process of adaptive evolution.
      • Nesting female scoters rely on nutrient reserves stored before nesting for completion of incubation, but rely on exogenous nutrients for egg formation.
      • Little is known about the relative importance of glycogen versus exogenous glucose for contractility of cardiac tissue in trout.
      • The latter may be formed endogenously from cellular precursors, but they may also originate from exogenous sources such as diet, tobacco smoke or environmental pollution.
    2. 1.2Psychiatry (of a disease or symptom) attributable to an agent or organism outside the body.
      〔主精神病学〕(疾病,症状等)外因的
      exogenous depression

      外因性抑郁。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A patient history should include attention to exogenous agents that may cause or further aggravate symptoms.
      • Doctors generally avoid prescribing hormone replacement therapy to postmenopausal women with systemic lupus erythematosus because of a widespread belief that exogenous oestrogens make the disease worse.
      • Like addiction, pornography is an ostensibly participatory process which commensurates the organism to exogenous - and arbitrary - stimuli.
      • All patients underwent toxicological analysis to exclude the presence of alcohol and other exogenous agents.
      • While external climatic factors are the cause of exogenous diseases such as fevers, colds and flus, Ama is the root of more endogenous diseases such as arthritis, heart disease and cancer.
    3. 1.3 Relating to an external group or society.
      与外部族群(或社会)有关的
      exogenous marriage

      异族通婚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Two of the papers in this volume refocus syncretism away from issues of authenticity and inauthenticity to argue for an integration and synchronisation of indigenous and exogenous elements.
      • Yet such a strategy does not signify polar opposition between tradition and modernity, endogenous and exogenous.
      • It can be loosely defined as a hybrid of exogenous and indigenous languages.
      • The linkages perspective considers both the exogenous pressures toward change and the internal dynamic of local cultures.

Derivatives

  • exogenously

  • adverb
    • While exogenously manipulating the level of stress facilitates accurate statistical estimation of the relationship between stress and performance, there is no such decoupling outside the laboratory.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Economic freedom is based on endogenously managed development rather than exogenously controlled development.
      • Each brood was kept together in its own aquarium, and once the fry began feeding exogenously, they were fed frozen and fresh daphnia ad libitum.
      • Prior clinical reports have suggested that exogenously administered alpha or beta melanocyte-stimulating hormone can increase skin pigmentation.
      • For the benchmark years 1972-1997, the price of Sector 08, entitled ‘crude petroleum and natural gas’ is exogenously changed by 10 percent.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from modern Latin exogena (denoting an exogenous plant, suggested by classical Latin indigena 'native') + -ous.

Rhymes

androgynous, autogenous, endogenous, erogenous, homogenous, hydrogenous, misogynous

Definition of exogenous in US English:

exogenous

adjectiveˌɛkˈsɑdʒənəsˌekˈsäjənəs
  • 1Relating to or developing from external factors.

    (与)外因(有关)的;由外因发展而来的。常与ENDOGENOUS 相对

    Often contrasted with endogenous
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He said that while there are a few indigenous reasons like genes, heredity etc for obesity, there are more exogenous reasons for the problem.
    • They are supposed to move like a pendulum: they may be dislocated by external forces, so-called exogenous shocks, but they will seek to return to the equilibrium position.
    • Other tastes, not necessarily exogenous, often superceded the desire for financial gain.
    • Once again, it is endogenous, not exogenous factors that make or break a relationship.
    • Before 1815, depressions were caused primarily by exogenous shocks, that is, by forces external to the economy such as wars, widespread crop failures, or other disasters.
    • On many issues, Latin Americans continue to be highly vulnerable to exogenous events, trends and decisions.
    • However, the building of excess capacity is not inevitable and is not driven by exogenous factors, such as external control of markets.
    • As predicted, many get there because of so-called exogenous shocks: a major media announcement, a celebrity endorsement, a dignitary's death.
    • This is an important claim because it challenges conventional wisdom that the oil shocks were driven by exogenous political events in the Middle East.
    • In stabilizing broad measures of economic volatility, it serves to decrease exogenous risk in the markets and the economy.
    • The only things that have changed since the start of the peace process have been, as it were, exogenous variables.
    • Citizens found themselves squeezed to suffocation in one way or another between domestic repression and exogenous vilification.
    • This theory stipulates that people are motivated by calculations of abstract utility in a cost-benefit framework, informed by exogenous tastes and preferences.
    • Also, the country remains vulnerable to exogenous shocks.
    • ‘These could be treated as exogenous but this might be misleading’.
    • Consider that most recessions are the result of exogenous shocks: the oil crisis of 1973, the credit controls of 1980, and, of course, the war.
    • External or exogenous factors were a threat to the monetary stability achieved in 1999.
    • In modern times, all significant bouts of inflation have been generated by a war or exogenous oil price shocks, not by a peacetime economy that expanded beyond its sustainable limits.
    • What we don't find is any sense in which religion is an exogenous variable, an autonomous force that floats above the social landscape and mysteriously bends the minds of men to its will.
    • Rational choice theory views actors as rational insofar as they act instrumentally, are utility maximizers, possess stable and exogenous preferences, and are self-interested.
    1. 1.1Biology Growing or originating from outside an organism.
      〔生〕外生的;外源的
      an exogenous hormone

      外激素。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Transgenesis refers to the process of introducing exogenous genes into the germ line of an organism.
      • Little is known about the relative importance of glycogen versus exogenous glucose for contractility of cardiac tissue in trout.
      • The latter may be formed endogenously from cellular precursors, but they may also originate from exogenous sources such as diet, tobacco smoke or environmental pollution.
      • Furthermore, laboratory studies of the uptake of exogenous chromosomal DNA in bacteria have also demonstrated that recombination can mediate the process of adaptive evolution.
      • Nesting female scoters rely on nutrient reserves stored before nesting for completion of incubation, but rely on exogenous nutrients for egg formation.
    2. 1.2Psychiatry (of a disease, symptom, etc.) caused by an agent or organism outside the body.
      〔主精神病学〕(疾病,症状等)外因的
      exogenous depression

      外因性抑郁。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • All patients underwent toxicological analysis to exclude the presence of alcohol and other exogenous agents.
      • A patient history should include attention to exogenous agents that may cause or further aggravate symptoms.
      • Like addiction, pornography is an ostensibly participatory process which commensurates the organism to exogenous - and arbitrary - stimuli.
      • While external climatic factors are the cause of exogenous diseases such as fevers, colds and flus, Ama is the root of more endogenous diseases such as arthritis, heart disease and cancer.
      • Doctors generally avoid prescribing hormone replacement therapy to postmenopausal women with systemic lupus erythematosus because of a widespread belief that exogenous oestrogens make the disease worse.
    3. 1.3 Relating to an external group or society.
      与外部族群(或社会)有关的
      exogenous marriage

      异族通婚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Two of the papers in this volume refocus syncretism away from issues of authenticity and inauthenticity to argue for an integration and synchronisation of indigenous and exogenous elements.
      • It can be loosely defined as a hybrid of exogenous and indigenous languages.
      • The linkages perspective considers both the exogenous pressures toward change and the internal dynamic of local cultures.
      • Yet such a strategy does not signify polar opposition between tradition and modernity, endogenous and exogenous.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from modern Latin exogena (denoting an exogenous plant, suggested by classical Latin indigena ‘native’) + -ous.

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