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Indemic vs Pandemic - What's the difference?

indemic | pandemic |

As an adjective pandemic is

widespread; general.

As a noun pandemic is

a pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.

indemic

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Indemic has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

pandemic

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Widespread; general.
  • (medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
  • World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.
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  • , author=Katie L. Burke , title=Ecological Dependency , volume=101, issue=1, page=64 , magazine= citation , passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic , what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”}}

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    * See also

    See also

    * epizootic * enzootic * plague * Black Death English words prefixed with pan-