Produced or made inside the body; for instance, insulin made by a person's own pancreas is endogenous insulin Pronounced: en-DODGE-in-us Compare: Exogenous
Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk
Grown or made inside the body Insulin made by a person's own pancreas is endogenous insulin Insulin that is made from beef or pork pancreas or derived from bacteria is exogenous because it comes from outside the body and must be injected
Contained within In mouse genetics, endogenous viruses are those that are integrated into the mouse genome and transmitted to progeny as chromosomal elements