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Endemic Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Endemic? [n] a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location [adj] originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [adj] (ecology) native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species" [adj] (of disease or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Endemic: autochthonal \| autochthonic \| autochthonous \| endemic disease \| indigenous \| native Related Terms \| Find terms related to Endemic: abnormality \| aboriginal \| acute disease \| affection \| affliction \| ailment \| allergic disease \| allergy \| atrophy \| autochthonous \| bacterial disease \| birth defect \| blight \| cardiovascular disease \| catching \| chronic disease \| circulatory disease \| communicable \| complaint \| complication \| condition \| congenital defect \| contagious \| defect \| deficiency disease \| deformity \| degenerative disease \| disability \| disease \| disorder \| distemper \| endemic disease \| endocrine disease \| epidemial \| epidemic \| epidemic disease \| epiphytotic \| epizootic \| functional disease \| fungus disease \| gastrointestinal disease \| genetic disease \| handicap \| hereditary disease \| homebred \| homegrown \| iatrogenic disease \| illness \| indigenous \| indisposition \| infectious \| infectious disease \| infective \| infirmity \| inoculable \| malady \| malaise \| morbidity \| morbus \| muscular disease \| natal \| native \| native-born \| neurological disease \| nutritional disease \| occupational disease \| organic disease \| original \| pandemic \| pandemic disease \| pathological condition \| pathology \| pestiferous \| pestilential \| plant disease \| primitive \| protozoan disease \| psychosomatic disease \| respiratory disease \| rockiness \| secondary disease \| seediness \| sickishness \| sickness \| signs \| sporadic \| spreading \| symptomatology \| symptomology \| symptoms \| syndrome \| taking \| the pip \| urogenital disease \| vernacular \| virus disease \| wasting disease \| worm disease \| zymotic See Also \| disease Endemic In Webster's Dictionary \Ende"mic\, Endemical \Ende"mical\, a. [Gr. ?, ?; ? + ? the people: cf. F. end['e]mique.] (Med.) Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease. Note: An endemic disease is one which is constantly present to a greater or less degree in any place, as distinguished from an epidemic disease, which prevails widely at some one time, or periodically, and from a sporadic disease, of which a few instances occur now and then. \Endem"ic\, n. (Med.) An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. --J. B. Heard. \En*dem"ic\, a. Belonging or native to a particular people or country; native as distinguished from introduced or naturalized; hence, regularly or ordinarily occurring in a given region; local; as, a plant endemic in Australia; -- often distinguished from {exotic}. The traditions of folklore . . . from a kind of endemic symbolism. --F. W. H. Myers.

Endemic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Endemic?

[n] a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location
[adj] originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"
[adj] (ecology) native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"
[adj] (of disease or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"

See Also | disease

Endemic In Webster's Dictionary

\En*de"mic\, Endemical \En*de"mic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, ?; ? +
? the people: cf. F. end['e]mique.] (Med.)
Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of
persons; as, an endemic disease.

Note: An endemic disease is one which is constantly present
      to a greater or less degree in any place, as
      distinguished from an epidemic disease, which prevails
      widely at some one time, or periodically, and from a
      sporadic disease, of which a few instances occur now
      and then.


\En*dem"ic\, n. (Med.)
An endemic disease.

      Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart,
      sometimes rises into an epidemic.        --J. B. Heard.


\En*dem"ic\, a.
Belonging or native to a particular people or country; native
as distinguished from introduced or naturalized; hence,
regularly or ordinarily occurring in a given region; local;
as, a plant endemic in Australia; -- often distinguished from
{exotic}.

      The traditions of folklore . . . from a kind of endemic
      symbolism.                               --F. W. H.
                                               Myers.

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