{ En*de"mic (?), En*de"mic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;, &?;; &?; + &?; the people: cf. F. endémique.] (Med.) 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.
En*dem"ic, n. (Med.) An endemic disease.
Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic.
J. B. Heard.
En*dem"ic*al*ly, adv. In an endemic manner.
En*dem`i*ol"o*gy (?), n. The science which treats of endemic affections.