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Definitions: Endemic |
EndemicAdjective1. (of 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". 2. (ecology) native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species". 3. 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". Noun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "endemic" was first used: 1759. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Avian | Confined and native to a certain region (Ricklefs 1979:869). (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | Applied to populations of potentially injurious plants, animals or viruses that are at their normal, balanced level. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Of an organism confined, in its indigenous occurrence, to a particular region. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | Present or usually prevalent in a population or geographical area at all times; said of a disease or agent. Called also endemial. (references) |
Science | Occurring naturally only in a single geographic area. (references) |
Weather | Species characteristic of or prevalent in a particular or restricted locality or region. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EndemicSynonyms: autochthonal (adj), autochthonic (adj), autochthonous (adj), indigenous (adj), endemic disease (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: cosmopolitan (adj), epidemic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox. |
Morbific; epidemic, endemic; zymotic. | |
Interiority | Home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular; endemic. |
Speciality | Adjective: special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular; (exceptional); idiomatic; idiotypical; typical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | P. marneffei is endemic to Southeast Asia, where it is one of the more common HIV-related opportunistic infections.Credit: CDC. |  | R. norvegicus is known to be a reservoir of bubonic plague (transmitted to man by the bite of a flea or other insect), endemic typhus fever, ratbite fever, and a few other dreaded diseases.Credit: CDC. |
 | This virus enters an organism by ingestion of water and food contaminated by human feces, and reaches the liver through the bloodstream. HAV infection is endemic in third world countries, and is prevalent in the Far East.Credit: CDC. |  | The urchin, Prionocidaris hawaiiensis, endemic to the Hawaiian islands.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | The urchin, Prionocidaris hawaiiensis, endemic to the Hawaiian islands.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Spiny lobster, Panulirus marginatus, endemic to the Hawaiian islands.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Pertussis is an endemic illness. (references) | |
Diphtheria remains endemic in developing countries. (references) | ||
Reportable in a few states in areas with endemic disease. (references) | ||
Business | Nonetheless, certain challenges endemic to doing business in Korea still affect the ability of foreign businesses to fully realize the potential of this dynamic sector. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Honduras | Systemic national problems, such as corruption and endemic conflicts of interest, also limit the development of the news media. (references) |
Discrimination | Mauritania | Societal discrimination against women, strongly rooted in traditional society, is endemic, although the situation continued to improve. (references) |
Economic History | Switzerland | In the past, cartels were endemic to the Swiss economy. (references) |
Human Rights | China | Corruption and inefficiency in the judicial system are endemic. (references) |
Bangladesh | Violence also is endemic between the student political wings of the major national parties, and between rival factions within the parties. (references) | |
Indonesia | Conditions at some relocation sites are life-threatening, with inadequate measures to protect the transmigrant population against diseases endemic to the sites. (references) | |
Minorities | Solomon Islands | In the precolonial era, these groups existed in a state of endemic warfare with one another, and even today many islanders see themselves first as members of a clan, next as inhabitants of their natal island, and only third as citizens of their nation. (references) |
Political Economy | PARAGUAY | Charges of corruption among tax officials are endemic. (references) |
Nigeria | Further economic growth was hindered by inadequate infrastructure, endemic corruption, and general economic mismanagement. (references) | |
Trade | Eq. Guinea | Customs fraud is endemic in Equatorial Guinea and protracted negotiations with customs officers over the value of imported goods are common. (references) |
China | Chinese officials are increasingly aware, however, that such protective measures contribute to endemic economic inefficiencies and encourage smuggling. (references) | |
Travel | Kenya | Other precautions should be taken to avoid contracting endemic tropical diseases. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | The Government is making significant efforts to combat trafficking despite resource constraints and endemic corruption. (references) |
Chad | Such practices were a consequence of parental resignation, dislocation of the family unit, endemic poverty, lack of appropriate legal protection, demographic and population explosion, and civil war. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Endemic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Endemic" is used about 300 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 300 | 16,755 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "endemic": endemic disease ♦ Endemic Diseases ♦ endemic goitre ♦ endemic typhus. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "endemic": hyper-endemic, near-endemic, polio-endemic, yaws-endemic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
endemic | 22 |
endemic panama species | 11 |
goiter endemic | 4 |
definition endemic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "endemic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | endemik, tipik për këtë vend, sëmundje endemike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مستوطن (habitation), مرض مزمن (chronic disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ендемична болест, ендемичен (vernacular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 地方性 (Endemical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | endemický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | endemisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | endemisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | endeeminen, kotoperäinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | endémique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | endemisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ενδημικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | א "מי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | népbetegség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | endemis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | endemico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 地方病 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちほうびょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ' 성 (Endemical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gorley dooie, dooie (complement, full-blooded, good-natured, inborn, inherent, kind, natural, patriotic, species, true-born, vernacular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | endemicay endemia (endemic disease). (various references) endemic (vernacular), boalã endemicã. (various references) эндемический. (various references) endemski. (various references) endémico (rife). (various references) endemisk. (various references) เฉพาะพื้นที่, โรคที่เกิ"เฉพาะถิ่น. (various references) yaygın (broad, common, diffuse, diffusive, epidemic, epidemical, expansive, extensive, familiar, far flung, general, pandemic, pervasive, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife, wide, widespread), yöreye özgü hayvan, yöresel hastalık, yöresel (regional, topical), sık görülen (frequent), bitki örtüsü (aborigines, vegetation), belirli bir topluluğa özgü hastalık, özgü (appropriate, incidental, indigenous, particular, peculiar to, special to). (various references) ендемічне захворювання, поголовне захоплення. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | endemos. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "endemic": endemically, endemicities, endemicity, endemics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "endemic": hyperendemic. (additional references) | |
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"Endemic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecdemic, edemic, Endelman, endem, endema, endemc, endimic, enemic, Enheim, enidemic, eudemis, indemic, pendemic, Pendzenik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "endemic" (pronounced ende"mik) |
| 6 | -n d e" m i k | pandemic. |
| 5 | -d e" m i k | academic, epidemic, nonacademic. |
| 4 | -e" m i k | polemic, systemic. |
| 3 | -m i k | aerodynamic, anemic, atomic, autonomic, bulimic, cataclysmic, ceramic, comic, cosmic, cytoplasmic, diatomic, dynamic, economic, electrodynamic, endothermic, ergonomic, exothermic, formic, gastronomic, gimmick, gnomic, hemodynamic, hypodermic, hypoglycemic, hypothalamic, logarithmic, macroeconomic, microeconomic, mimic, monatomic, noneconomic, ophthalmic, organismic, panoramic, patronymic, photodynamic, psychodynamic, rhythmic, samek, seismic, socioeconomic, subatomic, tragicomic, uneconomic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: edenic, icemen, minced. | |
-2 letters: deice, denim, diene, emend, medic, mince, mined, niece. | |
-3 letters: cede, cedi, cine, deem, deme, dene, deni, dice, dime, dine, eide, emic, iced, idem, meed, mend, mice, mien, mind, mine, need, neem, nice, nide. | |
-4 letters: cee, dee, den, die, dim, din, eme, end, ice, med, men, mid, nee, nim. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, em, en, id, in, me, mi, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: endemics, endermic, medicine. | |
+2 letters: decennium, impedance, impudence, macedoine, medicined, medicines. | |
+3 letters: cimetidine, comedienne, decenniums, echinoderm, economised, economized, endemicity, entodermic, impedances, imprudence, impudences, incumbered, inducement, luminesced, macedoines, mechanized, mediagenic, medicament, nematicide, nematocide, recombined, reminisced. | |
+4 letters: biomedicine, cimetidines, cinematized, comediennes, coredeeming, determinacy, discernment, disencumber, divorcement, echinoderms, emancipated, encrimsoned, endemically, endothecium, endothermic, imprudences, incremented, inducements, medevacking, medicaments, medicinable, mendacities, mendicities, merchandise, merchandize, misreckoned, nematicides, nematocides, predicament, reconfirmed, rescindment, unmedicated, unreclaimed. | |
+5 letters: aeromedicine, biomedicines, circumvented, commanderies, complexioned, complimented, countermined, decipherment, decrementing, discernments, discommended, diseconomies, disencumbers, displacement, divorcements, endemicities, hyperendemic, improvidence, intermediacy, mendicancies, merchandised, merchandiser, merchandises, merchandized, merchandizes, mischanneled, misconceived, misconnected, predicaments, predominance, recommending, recriminated, reindictment, rescindments, unmechanized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 64 65 6D 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.. . -- .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n d e m i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0064 0065 006D 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39807071797569 |
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