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Endemical

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: endemic.  "Endemic malaria" , "Food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"





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... usually breaks suddenly, and there falls generally very considerable rains. When the weather breaks many fall sick, this being the time of an endemical sickness, for seasonings, cachexes, fluxes, scorbutical dropsies, gripes, or the like which I have attributed to this reason. That by the extraordinary heat, the ferment of the blood being raised too high, and the tone of the stomach relaxed, ...
— Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 • Thomas P. Hughes


Words linked to "Endemical" :   ecdemic, endemic, epidemic, enzootic


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