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endemic
/ɛnˈdɛm.ɪk/
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What does endemic mean?
adjective
- Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
- Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.
- Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.
More meanings (2)
noun
- An individual or species that is endemic to a region.
- A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɛnˈdɛm.ɪk/
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Pará is free from serious endemic disorders, and was once a resort of invalids from New York and Massachusetts.
Not only is the disease epidemic or endemic, but the form which it assumes is so.
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Almost all oceanic islands, even the most isolated and smallest, are inhabited by land-shells, generally by endemic species, but sometimes by species found elsewhere.
In recent years, the droughts, the endemic conflict with Senegal, rising energy costs, and economic mismanagement have resulted in a substantial buildup of foreign debt.
In a most interesting lecture Brissaud shows the intimate relation between myxedema, endemic cretinism, sporadic cretinism, or myxedematous idiocy, and infantilism.