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<hw>En*de"mi*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Endemic.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Endemic, Endemical</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw><hw>En*de"mic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>En*de"mic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/; <?/ + <?/ the people: cf. F. <ets>end\'82mique</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; <as>as, an <ex>endemic</ex> disease</as>.</def>

<note>&hand; An <i>endemic disease</i> is one which is constantly present to a greater or less degree in any place, as distinguished from an <i>epidemic disease</i>, which prevails widely at some one time, or periodically, and from a <i>sporadic disease</i>, of which a few instances occur now and then.</note>

<h1>Endemic</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En*dem"ic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An endemic disease.</def>

<blockquote>Fear, which is an <b>endemic</b> latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. <i>J. B. Heard.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Endemically</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En*dem"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an endemic manner.</def>

<h1>Endemiology</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En*dem`i*ol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The science which treats of endemic affections.</def>

<h1>Endenization</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En*den`i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of naturalizing.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Endenize</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En*den"ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To endenizen.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Endenizen</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En*den"i*zen</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>en-</ets> + <ets>denizen</ets>. Cf. <er>Indenizen</er>.]</ety> <def>To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Ender</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>End"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, makes an end of something; <as>as, the <ex>ender</ex> of my life</as>.</def>

<h1>Endermatic</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En`der*mat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Endermic.</def>

<h1>Endermic</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En*der"mic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ in + <?/ skin.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.</def>

<cs><col>Endermic method</col>, <cd>that in which the medicine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.</cd></cs>

<h1>Endermically</h1> <Xpage=490>

<hw>En*der"mic*al*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By the endermic method; <as>as, applied <ex>endermically</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Enderon</h1> <Xpage=490>

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