exogenous UK /ɛkˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/US /ɛkˈsɑ.d͡ʒə.nəs/ adjective7 •Having an external cause. •Produced or originating outside of the referent organism. •Having a cause external to the infected organism. •Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model. •Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside. •Related to the exogen growth phase. •Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.