ENDEMIC
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{ En*de"mic (?), En*de"mic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; the people: cf. F. endémique.] (Med.) 1. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
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&hand_; 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.
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2. 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 . . . form a kind of endemic symbolism.
F. W. H. Myers.
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En*dem"ic, n. (Med.) An endemic disease.
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Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic.
J. B. Heard.
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