Meaning of ENDEMIC
| Pronunciation: | | en'demik
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic disease, indigenous, native |
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| | Antonyms: | | cosmopolitan, epidemic, widely distributed | | |
| | See Also: | | disease | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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- Having a natural distribution confined to a particular geographical region.
- Native to a particular region.
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