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Endemical

{

En-de′mic

,

En-de′mic-al

, }
Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK]; [GREEK] + [GREEK] the people: cf. F.
endémique
.]
(Med.)
1.
Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons;
as, an
endemic
disease
.
☞ 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.

Definition 2024

endemical

endemical

English

Adjective

endemical ‎(not comparable)

  1. (archaic) endemic
    • 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,:
      The situation is damp and unwholesome, and the water so bad, that I should suppose a long continuance here of such a number of prisoners must be productive of endemical disorders.
    • 1890, Grace & Philip Wharton, The Wits and Beaux of Society:
      In his own grounds he never wore a hat: he used to say, that on his first visit to Paris he was ashamed of his effeminacy, when he saw every meagre little Frenchman whom he could have knocked down in a breath walking without a hat, which he could not do without a certainty of taking the disease which the Germans say is endemical in England, and which they call to catch cold.

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