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Endemic   /ɛndˈɛmɪk/   Listen
Endemic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality.  Synonym: endemical.  "Endemic malaria" , "Food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"
2.
Native to or confined to a certain region.
3.
Originating where it is found.  Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, indigenous.  "Autochthonous rocks and people and folktales" , "Endemic folkways" , "The Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"
noun
1.
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.  Synonym: endemic disease.
2.
A plant that is native to a certain limited area.



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... middle of the last century, Rio, thanks probably to its remoteness, had escaped the yellow-fever. But the soil and climate were propitious; and about 1850 it made good a footing which it never relinquished. At the time of our cruise it was endemic, and we consequently spent there but two or three months of the cooler season, June to September. Even so, visiting the city was permitted to only a few selected men of the foremast hands. The habits of the seamen were still those of a generation ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... general conspiracy against them was brewing, fomented for the most part by foreign agents, some of them actually diplomats, who thus openly abused the immunity their functions gave them; and it was propagated by means of the secret societies which are an endemic plague in Italian countries. King and Government alike fought as best they could against the current of revolution, and they did so rightly, in the general interest, for revolution brings nothing but ...
— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville

... the least dreadful. Ought a reflecting and religious man to be surprised, if some such punishment were dispensed to this country, not less in mercy than in judgment, as the means of averting a more terrible and abiding scourge? An endemic malady, as destructive as the plague, has naturalised itself among your American brethren, and in Spain. You have hitherto escaped it, speaking with reference to secondary causes, merely because it has not yet been imported. But ...
— Colloquies on Society • Robert Southey

... sentenced to be sent here, almost to starve, not being able to live elsewhere. Their misery at this place does not continue long, as they are usually soon carried off by the dry gripes or twisting of the guts, which is the endemic, or peculiar disease of the country. Hence, and because wild young fellows are sometimes sent here by their relations, the Dutch at Batavia usually call this Verbeetering Island, or the Island ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr

... /n./ A condition endemic to some now-obsolete computers and peripherals (including ASR-33 teletypes and PRIME minicomputers) that results in all characters having their high (0x80) bit forced on. This of course makes transporting files to other systems much more difficult, not to mention the problems these machines have ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


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