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 ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; the people: cf. F. endémique. ] (Med.) 1. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. ]

adv. In an endemic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]