Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
endemic .
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- adjective archaic
endemic
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- adjective of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality
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Examples
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The situation is damp and unwholesome, and the water so bad, that I should suppose a long continuance here of such a number of prisoners must be productive of endemical disorders.
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The situation is damp and unwholesome, and the water so bad, that I should suppose a long continuance here of such a number of prisoners must be productive of endemical disorders.
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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.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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The aspect of the places subject to the ravages of typhus seems often to exclude all idea of a local or endemical origin.
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Were it not cruel in these circumstances, here might be the place to insert an observation, gleaned long ago from the great _Clothes-Volume_, where it stands with quite other intent: 'Some time before Small-pox was extirpated,' says the Professor, 'there came a new malady of the spiritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The aspect of the places subject to the ravages of typhus seems often to exclude all idea of a local or endemical origin.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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It should also be brought to mind, that cholera asphyxia is not a new disease to these natives, but seems to be, in many places, almost endemical, whilst it is well known that strangers, in such circumstances, become more obnoxious to the disease than the inhabitants of the country.
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The situation is damp and unwholesome, and the water so bad, that I should suppose a long continuance here of such a number of prisoners must be productive of endemical disorders.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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The first thing that we shall do is to state, and which we shall prove in evidence, that this vice of bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company's affairs in India, from the time of their first establishment there.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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I ever obferve, that the fudden, and great tranfitions which are Co often experienced, had any bad effefton the conftitution; nor do I know of one endemical complaint.
A Journal of Transactions and Events, During a Residence of Nearly Sixteen ... George Cartwright 1792
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