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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: endemic adj 1: (of disease or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world" [ant: {epidemic}] 2: (ecology) native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species" [ant: {cosmopolitan}] 3: originating where it is found "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [syn: {autochthonal}, {autochthonic}, {autochthonous}, {indigenous}] n : 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
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