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Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean "belonging" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
, race, field, area, or environment
Natural environment

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a term that encompasses all life and non-living things occurring nature on Earth or some region thereof....
; native to an area or scope.

It also has two specific meanings:










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Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean "belonging" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
, race, field, area, or environment
Natural environment

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a term that encompasses all life and non-living things occurring nature on Earth or some region thereof....
; native to an area or scope.

It also has two specific meanings:

  • Endemism, an organism being "endemic" means exclusively native to a place or biota
  • Endemic (epidemiology)
    Endemic (epidemiology)

    In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic in a population when that infection is maintained in the population without the need for external inputs....
    , an infection is said to be "endemic" in a human population when that infection is maintained in the population without the need for external inputs.


See also


  • Endemism in birds
    Endemism in birds

    This article is a parent page for a series of articles providing information about endemism among birds in the World's various zoogeographic zones.The term endemic, in the context of bird endemism, refers to any species found only in a specific area....
    , relates to the definitions of endemism for birds only.
  • Epizoology
    Epizoology

    Epizoology is the study of disease patterns within animal populations. See epidemiology....
    , the study of infection and disease patterns in animal populations.
  • Zoonosis
    Zoonosis

    A zoonosis or zoonose is any infectious disease that is able to be transmitted from other animals, both wild and domestic, to humans or from humans to animals ....
    , any infectious disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans
  • Epidemic
    Epidemic

    In epidemiology, an infection that is epidemic appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience ....