systemic circulation
Americannoun
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the circulatory system in general.
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(in mammals and birds) the circulatory system excluding the pulmonary circulation.
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"Factors in systemic circulation -- mainly proteins secreted by various organs -- are understood to mediate brain aging in terms of cognition, plasticity, adult neurogenesis, and neuroinflammation," the authors write.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2024
The variables affecting blood flow and blood pressure in the systemic circulation are cardiac output, compliance, blood volume, blood viscosity, and the length and diameter of the blood vessels.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
This network, called the hypophyseal portal system, allows hypothalamic hormones to be transported to the anterior pituitary without first entering the systemic circulation.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Oral, chronic infection untreated is getting into the bloodstream 24 hours a day, seven days a week, seeding systemic circulation.
From Salon • Aug. 10, 2012
This great artery and its divisions, with their returning veins, constitute the greater, or systemic circulation.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
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