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Endogenous adj.

(Bot.) 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.

(Biol.) Originating from within; increasing by internal growth.

Endogenous multiplication (Biol.), a method of cell formation, seen in cells having a cell wall. The nucleus and protoplasm divide into two distinct masses; these in turn become divided and subdivided, each division becoming a new cell, until finally the original cell wall is ruptured and the new cells are liberated. This mode of growth is characteristic of many forms of cells, both animal and vegetable.

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Etymology of 'Endogenous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... by an epidermis, composed of muriform cells of a bright yellow color, after having been treated with liquor potassae to clear up the tissues. These cells are shown in Fig. G. An examination of the transverse section shows us the endogenous structure, as we find it also in various other drugs (sarsaparilla, etc.), namely, a nucleus sheath, inclosing the fibrovascular bundles and pith, and surrounded by a peri-ligneous or peri-nuclear portion, consisting of soft-walled parenchyma cells, loosely ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

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