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Definition of Endemical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality. "Food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"

Definition of Endemical

1. Adjective. (archaic) endemic ¹

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Definition of Endemical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Endemical

1. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease. 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. Origin: Gr,; + the people: cf. F. Endemique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Endemical

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1. The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq.: Abridged by Robert Boyle (1725)
"There are fome places, in which the endemical ... in many other places, where, yet it is notorious that1, they are not endemical. ..."

2. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1851)
"The facts relating to endemical diseases and predispositions to disease, ... Some of these diseases are properly termed endemical, though they are not the ..."

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