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Endemic disease   /ɛndˈɛmɪk dɪzˈiz/   Listen
Endemic disease

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: endemic.





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... Cretinism is an endemic disease among mountainous people who drink largely of lime water, and is characterized by a condition of physical, physiologic, and mental degeneracy and nondevelopment, and possibly goiter. The subjects of this disease seldom reach five feet in height, and usually not more than four. ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould


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