Endemic
Pronunciation : En*de"mic, En*de"mic*al
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [Gr. end?mique.] (Med.)
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : En*dem"ic
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard.
(Med.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913