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(), Ende"mical ()} a.[Gr. , ; + the people: cf. F. endmique.] (Med.) 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. Endem"ic n.(Med.) An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard. Endem"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. スポンサード リンク
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