Extrinsic
- a. Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ — said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic.
- a. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; — opposed to intrinsic.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.