'Endemic' definitions:
Definition of 'endemic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to a 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" [syn: endemic, endemical] [ant: ecdemic, epidemic]
adjective
Native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species" [ant: cosmopolitan, widely distributed]
adjective
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, endemic, indigenous]
noun
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 [syn: endemic, endemic disease]
noun
A plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island"
Definition of 'Endemic'
From: GCIDE
- 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 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Endemic'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'endemic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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