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Encyclopedia > Endemic
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Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean "belonging" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope. Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...


It also has two specific meanings:

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

Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean belonging or native to, characteristic of, or prevalent in a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; Native to an area or scope. ... 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. ...

See also

  • Endemism in birds, relates to the definitions of endemism for birds only.
  • Epizoology, the study of infection and disease patterns in animal populations.
  • Zoonosis, any infectious disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans
  • Epidemic
  • graphic, endemicland, land of art, creation, and more

http://www.endemicland.com This article is a parent page for a series of articles providing information about endemism among birds in the Worlds various zoogeographic zones. ... Epizoology is the study of disease patterns in animal populations. ... Zoonosis (pronounced ) is any infectious disease that may be transmitted from other animals, both wild and domestic, to humans or from humans to animals (the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis). ... In epidemiology, an epidemic (from [[Latin language] epi- upon + demos people) is a disease that 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 (the number of new cases in the population during... As a noun, a graphic usually refers to a computer image or picture, or an infographic, such as a chart. ...

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Endemic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (159 words)
Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean belonging or native to, characteristic of, or prevalent in a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; Native to an area or scope.
In ecology, an organism being "endemic" means exclusively native to a place or biota.
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.
Endemic (ecology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (225 words)
In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or one of various ways of being not native (e.g., adventive, exotic, alien, introduced, naturalized).
A species that is endemic is unique to that place or region, found naturally nowhere else, whereas a species that is indigenous may be native to other locations as well.
Islands are especially likely to develop endemic forms because of their geographical isolation; remote island groups, such as Hawai'i and the Galápagos Islands, have large numbers of endemic species.
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