n. (Med.) An endemic disease. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
The traditions of folklore . . . form a kind of endemic symbolism. F. W. H. Myers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
adv. In an endemic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]