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Definition: endemic
endemis
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: endemic
endemic
n 1: 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 [syn:
endemic disease]
2: a plant that is native to a certain limited area;
“it is an
endemic found only this island”
endemic
adj 1: of or relating to a 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”
[syn:
endemical] [ant:
epidemic,
ecdemic]
2: native to or confined to a certain region;
“the islands have
a number of interesting endemic species” [ant:
cosmopolitan]
3: 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” [syn:
autochthonal,
autochthonic,
autochthonous,
indigenous]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Endemic
Endemic
\En*dem"ic\, n. (Med.)
An endemic disease.
[1913 Webster]
Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart,
sometimes rises into an epidemic. --J. B. Heard.
[1913 Webster]
Endemic
\En*de"mic\, Endemical
\En*de"mic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, ?; ? +
? the people: cf. F. end['e]mique.] (Med.)
1. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of
persons; as, an endemic disease.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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