{ } 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. ]
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เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
