| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pan·dem·ic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p n-d m  k |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Widespread; general. 2. Medicine Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population: pandemic influenza. | | NOUN: | A pandemic disease. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Late Latin pand mus, from Greek pandmos, of all the people : pan-, pan- + dmos, people; see d - in Appendix I.
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