pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik)
Pandemic
pandemic
pandemic [pan-dem´ik]
pandemic (pan·deˑ·mik),
pandemic (pandem´ik),
1. a widespread epidemic of a disease.
2. widely epidemic.
pan·dem·ic (p n-d m  k)adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. A pandemic disease. |
Pandemic
A widespread epidemic that affects whole countries or the entire world. There have been seven cholera pandemics since 1817.
pandemic
[-dē′mik]
Etymology: Gk, pan + demos, people
(of a disease) occurring throughout the population of a country, a people, or the world.
pandemic [pan-dem´ik]
1. a widespread epidemic of a disease.
2. widely epidemic.
pandemic (pan·deˑ·mik),
adj relating to the occurrence over a vast geographic region and impacting a large percentage of the population.
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Pancreatitis.
pandemic (pandem´ik),
adj describing an epidemic covering a widespread area such as a country or continent. It can describe a global epidemic.
pandemic
a widespread epidemic, i.e the disease is clustered in time but not in space.
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