| endemical | <medicine> 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. Origin: Gr,; + the people: cf. F. Endemique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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