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ENDECAGON n.
A plane figure of eleven sides and angles.
ENDECAGYNOUS a.
Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.
ENDECANE n.
rbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum. [Written also hendecane.]
ENDECAPHYLLOUS a.
Composed of eleven leaflets; -- said of a leaf.
ENDEICTIC a.
Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill. Enfield.
ENDEIXIS n.
An indication.
ENDEMIAL a.
Endemic. [R.]
ENDEMIC n.
An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard.
ENDEMIC; ENDEMICAL a.
Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
ENDEMICALLY adv.
In an endemic manner.
ENDEMIOLOGY n.
The science which treats of endemic affections.
ENDENIZATION n.
The act of naturalizing. [R.]
ENDENIZE v.
To endenizen. [Obs.]
ENDENIZEN v.
To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
ENDER n.
One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
ENDERMATIC a.
Endermic.
ENDERMIC a.
Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin. Endermic method, that in which the medicine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.
ENDERMICALLY adv.
By the endermic method; as, applied endermically.
ENDERON n.
The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a.
ENDIADEMED a.
Diademed. [R.]
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