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Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.

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  1. a. class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/peculiar">Peculiar to a class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/district">district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
  2. adj. of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality
  3. class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/peculiar">Peculiar to a class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/district">district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease. Note: 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.
  4. a of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality