Endemic

a.	1.	(Med.) Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
	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.
n.	1.	(Med.) An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. - J. B. Heard.

Noun	1.	endemic - 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 Synonyms: endemic disease
	2.	endemic - a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island"
Adj.	1.	endemic - of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world" Synonyms: endemical Antonyms: ecdemic - of or relating to a disease that originates outside the locality in which it occurs epidemic - (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza"
	2.	endemic - native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species" Antonyms: cosmopolitan, widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
	3.	endemic - originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, indigenous, autochthonous

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