systemic

Dictionary: sys·tem·ic (sĭ-stĕm'ĭk, -stē'mĭk) pronunciation

adj.

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.

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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.

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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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