Endemic \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 . . . from a kind of endemic
symbolism. --F. W. H.
Myers.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Endemic \En*de"mic\, Endemical \En*de"mic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, ?; ? +
? the people: cf. F. end['e]mique.]
(Med.)
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Endemic \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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