endemic

endemic
Synonyms and related words:
abnormality, aboriginal, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, autochthonous, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, catching, chronic disease, circulatory disease, communicable, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, contagious, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemial, epidemic, epidemic disease, epiphytotic, epizootic, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, homebred, homegrown, iatrogenic disease, illness, indigenous, indisposition, infectious, infectious disease, infective, infirmity, inoculable, malady, malaise, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, natal, native, native-born, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, original, pandemic, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, pestiferous, pestilential, plant disease, primitive, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, sporadic, spreading, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, taking, the pip, urogenital disease, vernacular, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease, zymotic

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  • Endemic — En*de mic, Endemical En*de mic*al, a. [Gr. ?, ?; ? + ? the people: cf. F. end[ e]mique.] (Med.) 1. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease. [1913 Webster] Note: An endemic disease is one which is …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • endemic — endemic, epidemic An endemic disease is one that is regularly or only found among a particular people or in a particular region, whereas an epidemic disease is a temporary but widespread outbreak of a disease. Epidemic, but not endemic, also… …   Modern English usage

  • Endemic — Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean belonging or native to , characteristic of , or prevalent in a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope. It also has two specific meanings:* Endemism, an organism… …   Wikipedia

  • endemic — ENDÉMIC, Ă, endemici, ce, adj. (Despre plante sau animale) Care trăieşte numai pe un anumit teritoriu; (despre unele boli) care are cauze locale, specifice unei anumite regiuni; care are caracter permanent în anumite locuri. – Din fr. endémique.… …   Dicționar Român

  • endemic — [en dem′ik] adj. [Fr endémique < endémie, endemic disease < Gr endēmia, a dwelling in < endēmos, native < en , in + dēmos, the people: see DEMOCRACY] 1. native to a particular country, nation, or region: said of plants, animals, and,… …   English World dictionary

  • Endemic — En*dem ic, n. (Med.) An endemic disease. [1913 Webster] Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • endemic — index domestic (indigenous), native (domestic), special, specific Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • endemic — 1660s (n.); 1759 (adj.), from Gk. endemos native, dwelling in (a place), of or belonging to a people (from en in; see EN (Cf. en ) (2) + demos people, district; see DEMOTIC (Cf. demotic)) + IC (Cf. ic). Endemical is attested from 1650s …   Etymology dictionary

  • endemic — adj indigenous, *native, autochthonous, aboriginal Antonyms: exotic: pandemic Contrasted words: foreign, alien, extraneous, *extrinsic …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • endemic — [adj] native local, regional; concept 536 …   New thesaurus

  • endemic — ► ADJECTIVE 1) (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area. 2) (of a plant or animal) native or restricted to a certain area. DERIVATIVES endemicity noun endemism noun. ORIGIN Greek end mios native …   English terms dictionary

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