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systemic

 
Dictionary: sys·tem·ic   (sĭ-stĕm'ĭk, -stē'mĭk) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Of or relating to systems or a system.
    1. Relating to or affecting the entire body or an entire organism: systemic symptoms; a systemic poison.
    2. Relating to or affecting a particular body system, especially the nervous system: a systemic lesion.
    3. Physiology. Of or relating to systemic circulation.
systemically sys·tem'i·cal·ly adv.

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Pertaining to the whole body.

Veterinary Dictionary: systemic
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Pertaining to or affecting the body as a whole.

  • s. inflammatory response (SIR) — a specific condition recognized in critical care medicine, characterized by febrile response, increased heart and respiratory rates, and leukocytosis.
  • s. lupus erythematosus — see lupus erythematosus.
  • s. neuroaxial dystrophy — see neuroaxial dystrophy.
  • s. therapy — treatment with a drug that is absorbed into the bloodstream and distributed to all parts of the body except where there is a specific barrier.
Wikipedia: Systemic
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Systemic refers to something that is spread throughout, system-wide, affecting a group or system such as a body, economy, market or society as a whole. It should not be confused with "systematic", which means methodical. Systemic may also refer to:

  • Systemic disease, an illness that affects multiple organs, systems or tissues, or the entire body
  • Systemic bias, the inherent tendency of a process to favor particular outcomes
  • Systemic circulation, carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the body and then returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart
  • Systemic venous system, refers to veins that drain into the right atrium without passing through two vascular beds
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part of the body
  • Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, an inflammatory state affecting the whole body, frequently in response to infection
  • Systemic scleroderma, also known as systemic sclerosis, a systemic connective tissue disease
  • Systemic acquired resistance, a "whole-plant" resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen
  • Systemic pesticide, a pesticide that affects multiple organs or critical functions of the target species
  • Systemic (amateur extrasolar planet search project), a research project to locate extrasolar planets using distributed computing
  • Systemic linguistics, an approach to linguistics that considers language as a system
  • Systemic functional grammar, also called systemic functional linguistics, a model of grammar that considers language as a system
  • Systemic risk, the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or market, as opposed to risk associated with any one entity
  • Systemic shock, a shock to any system strong enough to drive it out of equilibrium, can refer to a change in many fields
  • Systemic therapy, a school of psychology dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns and dynamics
  • Systems psychology, also called systemic psychology, a branch of applied psychology based on systems theory and thinking

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Translations: Systemic
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - systemisk

Nederlands (Dutch)
systematisch

Français (French)
adj. - (gén, Écon, Pol) du système, (Physiol) de l'organisme, (Agric, Hort) systémique, (Ling) systémique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - systemisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (φυσιολ.) συστηματικός, που ανήκει ή αναφέρεται στο σύστημα ζώντος οργανισμού

Italiano (Italian)
sistemico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - sistêmico

Русский (Russian)
систематический, относящийся ко всему организму, оказывающий физиологическое действие, соматический

Español (Spanish)
adj. - sistémico, que concierne a todo el cuerpo, no confinado a una parte en particular

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - gällande hela organismen, system-, kropps-

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
系统的, 全身的, 组织的, 体系的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 系統的, 全身的, 組織的, 體系的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 조직의, 온몸의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 組織の, 全身の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) جهازي : منسوب الى جهاز وبخاصه عام ( غير موضعي) شامل الجسم كله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מערכתי, של הגוף בכללותו (פיסיולוגיה), המתפשט בצמח דרך השורשים אל תוך הרקמות (קוטל מחלות)‬


 
 

 

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