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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.