systemic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a system, especially when affecting the entirety of a thing.
systemic flaws in the design and construction of the vehicles.
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relating to or noting a policy, practice, or set of beliefs that has been established as normative or customary throughout a political, social, or economic system: systemic racism.
systemic inequality;
systemic racism.
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Physiology, Pathology.
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relating to or affecting the body as a whole.
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relating to or affecting a particular body system.
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(of a pesticide) absorbed and circulated by a plant or other organism so as to be lethal to pests that feed on it.
adjective
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another word for systematic systematic
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physiol (of a poison, disease, etc) affecting the entire body
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(of a pesticide, fungicide, etc) spreading through all the parts of a plant and making it toxic to pests or parasites without destroying it
noun
Other Word Forms
- nonsystemic adjective
- systemically adverb
Etymology
Origin of systemic
Example Sentences
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Business leaders do not need to become vaccine experts, but they do need to watch this issue with the same discipline they employ to monitor other emerging systemic risks.
From MarketWatch
"While the catalysts differ… the problems remain the same: systemic mismanagement, corruption, and repression," she said.
From BBC
Rather than spreading only through passive release into surrounding tissue, viruses can exploit the body's own migratory machinery to move efficiently and systemically.
From Science Daily
She says the real culprit is a "systemic underfunding" of the system.
From BBC
On Dec. 30, the company announced that it had submitted a New Drug Application to the Food and Drug Administration for bezuclastinib in patients with non-advanced systemic mastocytosis, a rare blood disorder.
From Barron's
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