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endemic an endemic disease or plant endemic [en′dem·ik] (medicine) Peculiar to a certain region, specifically referring to a disease which occurs more or less constantly in any locality. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| , in spite of the tergiversations which were endemic, and, it might be said, inevitable, at that period. And something did, for the next summer was made memorable by the prevalence of a mysterious disease--epidemic, endemic, or the Lord knows what, though the physicians didn't--which carried away a full half of the population. Sclater, informs me that this is the case with the Strix punctatissima and Pyrocephalus nanus; and probably with the Otus Galapagoensis and Zenaida Galapagoensis: so that the number of endemic birds is reduced to twenty-three, or probably to twenty-one. |
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