(n) 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 disease
(adj) of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality, Syn.endemical, Ant.epidemic, ecdemic
{ } 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. ]
[アウロノカラぞく, auronokara zoku] (n) Aulonocara (genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa in the family Cichlidae); peacock cichlids [Add to Longdo]
[o-sutorarian . ma-buru . kyattosha-ku ; o-sutorarianma-burukyattosha-ku] (n) Australian marbled catshark (Atelomycterus macleayi, species endemic to Australia) [Add to Longdo]
[カワスズメぞく, kawasuzume zoku] (n) Oreochromis (genus of tilapiine cichlids in the fish family Cichlidae endemic to Africa and the Middle East) [Add to Longdo]
[shiganusurousupi ; baikara-do . fokkusufeisu ; baikara-dofokkusufeisu] (n) bicolored foxface (Siganus uspi, species of rabbitfish endemic to Fiji sometimes found in New Caledonia) [Add to Longdo]
[da-ku . go-suto . fisshu ; da-kugo-sutofisshu] (n) dark ghost shark (Hydrolagus novaezealandiae, a shortnose chimaera endemic to New Zealand) [Add to Longdo]
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