demo-, dem-, demio-, -demic, -deme, -demically +

1. Relating to or involving ordinary people.
2. Relating to a simplified form of hieroglyphics, the writing system used in ancient Egypt. Literally, "of the people".

1. Used to describe a disease occurring within a specific area, region, or locale; such as, a disease that exists permanently in a particular region or population. Malaria is a constant worry in parts of Africa.
2. Characteristic of a particular place or among a particular group or area of interest or activity. Literally, "in the people".
3. In ecology, of or relating to a native species or population occurring under highly restricted conditions as a result of the presence of a unique environment factor that limits its distribution.

A swelling of the thyroid gland caused by a lack of iodine in the diet in certain geographic areas; especially, in mountain regions as the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas.

The characteristic of being a disease that occurs persistently in a geographic area or among a given population or group.

The study of endemic disease which occurs persistently in an area or among a given group of people

1. The occurrence of highly adapted plants or animals in a particular geographic area.
2. The ecological state of being unique to a particular geographic location; such as, a specific island, habitat type, nation, or other defined zone.

To be endemic to a place or geographic area means that it is found only in that part of the world and nowhere else.

A scale that measures how much a given area of land contributes to global biodiversity.

Endemism richness of plants and vertebrate land animals is being evaluated by scientists to determine the "biodiversity values" of various parts of the world.

A reference to a disease that is endemic but capable of becoming epidemic from time to time.

1. Descriptive of an outbreak of a disease that spreads more quickly and more extensively among a group of people than would normally be expected.
2. A reference to the spreading of a disease that attacks many people at about the same time and may spread through one or several communities.

The quality of being epidemic.

1. A descriptive treatise of epidemic diseases or of any particular epidemic.
2. A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.

A specialist in the medical study of causes and transmissions of diseases among people.

1. The scientific and medical study of the causes and transmission of disease within a population.
2. The origin and development characteristics of a particular disease.

Of or belonging to the whole people, public, general.

1. General, universal; especially, of a disease.
2. Prevalent over the whole of a country or continent, or over the whole world. Distinguished from epidemic, which may connote limitation to a smaller area.
3. A disease that spreads throughout the world.
4. A disease affecting the majority of the population of a large region; such as, a disease that is epidemic at the same time in many parts of the world. AIDS is currently considered to be pandemic, but this term has also traditionally included such diseases as cholera, plague, and influenza.
5. Etymologically, "all of the people".