Definition of Ecdemic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a disease that originates outside the locality in which it occurs.

Antonyms: Endemic, Epidemic

Definition of Ecdemic

1. Adjective. (medicine) Originating from outside the area in which it occurs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Ecdemic

1. Denoting a disease brought into a region from without. Origin: G. Ekdemos, foreign, from home, fr. Demos, people (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecdemic

eccoriate
eccrine
eccrine acrospiroma
eccrine gland
eccrine poroma
eccrine spiradenoma
eccrinology
eccrises
eccritic
eccritics
eccyclema
eccyclemas
eccyclemata
eccyesis
ecdemic (current term)
ecdemite
ecderon
ecdyses
ecdysial
ecdysial gland
ecdysiasts
ecdysiophilia
ecdysiophilias
ecdysis
ecdyson
ecdysone

Literary usage of Ecdemic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Process of Historical Proof by Isaac Taylor (1828)
"their wars with those princes, and by their ecdemic habits, the wall of partition between themselves and the Greeks had been, to a great extent, ..."

2. The Process of Historical Proof by Isaac Taylor (1828)
"PROCESS OF HISTORICAL PROOF. their wars with those princes, and by their ecdemic habits, the wall of partition between themselves and the Greeks had been, ..."

3. An Epitome of the Reports of the Medical Officers to the Chinese Imperial by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1884)
"Suppurative hepatitis and dysentery were ecdemic, and were the chief causes of serious illness among the foreign residents. On 6th of August, three cases of ..."

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