Definition of Endemec
Endemic, a term applied to diseases which affect the inhabitants of
certain countries and localities, and which arise from strictly local
causes, e.g. neighbouring swamps, bad sanitation, impure water,
climate, &c.
- Wikipedia
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 . . . form a kind of
endemic symbolism. F. W. H. Myers.
{ En*de"mic (?), En*de"mic*al (?), }
a. [Gr. &?;, &?;; &?; + &?; the people: cf. F.
endémique.] (Med.) Peculiar to a district
or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic
disease.
&fist; 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 . . . form a kind of
endemic symbolism. F. W. H. Myers.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A disease widespread among a population in a relatively small, confined area.
- Epidemiology An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at the frequency expected in a given time period.
- Like or having to do with an endemic
- Of a disease, prevalent in a given population or area
Malaria is endemic to the tropics.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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