Definition of Exogenous

caused by outside factors

Examples of Exogenous in a sentence

The doctor determined that the woman’s depression was exogenous and stemmed from weather changes and other outside factors.  🔊

Some of the company’s layoffs were caused by in-house problems, while many of them were due to exogenous factors that could not be predicted.  🔊

Exogenous hormones that were not produced by the body but injected, were the cause of the man’s rapid muscle gain.  🔊

A decrease in demand for honey worldwide led to an exogenous overflowing of honey in the company’s warehouses.  🔊

An exogenous virus entered the human’s body and caused the test subject to be sick despite his body’s attempt to fight the bug.  🔊

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