endemic disease

1. 1.

   a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location

   Synonymsendemic

   Broaderdisease

Questions about endemic disease

What does endemic disease mean?

endemic disease means "a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location".

What is another word for endemic disease?

Close synonyms include endemic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is endemic disease a common word?

endemic disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.