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SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Circulation that supplies blood to all the body except to the lungs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("systemic circulation" is a kind of...):
circulation (movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels)
Context examples:
A system of vessels between the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary in which blood, after passing through one capillary bed, is conveyed through a second set of capillaries before it returns to the systemic circulation.
(Hypothalamohypophyseal Portal System, NCI Thesaurus)
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