endemic | (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. ecdemic, epidemic |
Endemical | ☞ 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 ] The traditions of folklore . . . form a kind of endemic symbolism. F. W. H. Myers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] Variants: Endemic |
Endemically | adv. In an endemic manner. [ 1913 Webster ] |