Endemic, Endemical, Endemial

( Med.) Applied to diseases peculiar to a certain cla of persons, or to a particular district. Thus ague is an endemic disease in low marshy countries: the goitre in the Alps. They differ from epidemic diseases, which, without reference to locality or cla , attack many persons at the same time in the same place, and are contagious; as influenza, scarlet fever, . Endem'ic, n. A disease of an endemic nature. Endemically, adv . In an endemic manner. Endenization, n. The act of naturalizing. (R.) End'er, n. One who ends; a finisher. En'derby Land, a large tract of land in the Antarctio Ocean, discovered in 1831 by Biscoe; Lat. 67° 30′ S., Lon. 50° E.