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Endemic   /ɛndˈɛmɪk/   Listen
Endemic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality.  Synonym: endemical.  "Endemic malaria" , "Food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"  Antonyms: ecdemic, epidemic.
2.
Native to or confined to a certain region.  Antonym: cosmopolitan.
3.
Originating where it is found.  Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, indigenous.  "Autochthonous rocks and people and folktales" , "Endemic folkways" , "The Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"
noun
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.  Synonym: endemic disease.
2.
A plant that is native to a certain limited area.



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"Endemic" Quotes from Famous Books



... miles of sea-coast, with several good harbors; with fine forests in the north; the waters filled with fish, and the plains covered with thousands of herds of cattle; blessed with a climate, than which there can be no better in the world; free from all manner of diseases, whether epidemic or endemic; and with a soil in which corn yields from seventy to eighty fold. In the hands of an enterprising people, what a country this might be! we are ready to say. Yet how long would a people remain so, in such a ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... that plague has become endemic in India? Any other result is impossible where passengers always leave some dirt where they go and take more ...
— Third class in Indian railways • Mahatma Gandhi

... Grippe).—La Grippe is an acute infectious disease caused by a germ. It may be epidemic, attacking a large number of persons at one time, or it may continue in the same region for some time and is then called endemic. It is caused by a germ, discovered ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... bodies of men are enfeebled and enervated; and it is not uncommon to observe very high degrees of irritability under the external appearance of great strength and robustness. The hypochondriac, palsies, cachexies, dropsies, and all those diseases which arise from laxity and debility, are, in our days, endemic every where; and the hysterics, which used to be peculiar to the women, as the name itself indicates, now attacks both sexes indiscriminately. It is evident that so great a revolution could not be effected without the concurrence of many ...
— A Treatise on Foreign Teas - Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, - Entitled An Essay On the Nerves • Hugh Smith

... difference of character and qualifications. The father, a man of mature judgment, whose experience in the world gave him considerable advantages; was also of an age and temperament that rendered him less liable to the endemic diseases of such a climate,[28] while his patience, perseverance, and medical skill, enabled him to surmount difficulties which a younger man, by his rashness, would only increase. The son, a young sailor, just entering life, full of ...
— A Voyage Round the World, Vol. I (of ?) • James Holman


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