ENDEMICS

Noun

endemics

plural of endemic

Anagrams

• cnemides, midscene

Source: Wiktionary


ENDEMIC

En*de"mic, En*de"mic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. endémique.] (Med.)

Definition: 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.)

Definition: An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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