Systemic fundamental to a predominant social, economic, or political practice. This refers to:

In medicine

In medicine, ''systemic'' means affecting the whole body, or at least multiple

organ system An organ system is a biological system consisting of a group of organs that work together to perform one or more functions. Each organ has a specialized role in a plant or animal body, and is made up of distinct tissues. Plants Plants have ...

s. It is in contrast with ''topical'' or ''local''. * Systemic administration, a route of administration of medication so that the entire body is affected * Systemic circulation, carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the body and then returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart *

Systemic disease A systemic disease is one that affects a number of organs and tissues, or affects the body as a whole. Examples * Mastocytosis, including mast cell activation syndrome and eosinophilic esophagitis * Chronic fatigue syndrome * Systemic vas ...

, an illness that affects multiple organs, systems or tissues, or the entire body * Systemic effect, an adverse effect of an exposure that affects the body as a whole, rather than one part *

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is an inflammatory state affecting the whole body. It is the body's response to an infectious or noninfectious insult. Although the definition of SIRS refers to it as an "inflammatory" response, i ...

, an inflammatory state affecting the whole body, frequently in response to infection * Systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part of the body *

Systemic scleroderma Systemic scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis, is an autoimmune rheumatic disease characterised by excessive production and accumulation of collagen, called fibrosis, in the skin and internal organs and by injuries to small arteries. There are two ...

, also known as systemic sclerosis, a systemic connective tissue disease * Systemic venous system, refers to veins that drain into the right atrium without passing through two vascular beds *

Systemic exertion intolerance disease Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or ME/CFS, is a complex, debilitating, long-term medical condition. The causes and mechanisms of the disease are not fully understood. Distinguishing core symptoms are ...

, a new name for chronic fatigue syndrome proposed by the Institute of Medicine in 2015

In biology

Systemic acquired resistance Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a "whole-plant" resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen. SAR is analogous to the innate immune system found in animals, and although there are many shared aspects ...

, a "whole-plant" resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen *

Systemic pesticide Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests. This includes herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, molluscicide, piscicide, avicide, rodenticide, bactericide, insect repellent, animal repellent, microbicide, fungicide, and lampr ...

, a pesticide that enters and moves freely within the organism under treatment

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Systemic (amateur extrasolar planet search project) Systemic is a research project designed to search data for extrasolar planets using amateur astronomers. The project utilizes a downloaded console provided on the Systemic website, allowing users to sort through data sets in search of characteri ...

, a research project to locate extrasolar planets using distributed computing *

Systemic bias Systemic bias, also called institutional bias, and related to structural bias, is the inherent tendency of a process to support particular outcomes. The term generally refers to human systems such as institutions. Institutional bias and structur ...

, the inherent tendency of a process to favor particular outcomes * Systemic functional grammar, a model of grammar that considers language as a system * Systemic functional linguistics, an approach to linguistics that considers language as a system *

Systemic psychology Systems psychology is a branch of both theoretical psychology and applied psychology that studies human behaviour and experience as complex systems. It is inspired by systems theory and systems thinking, and based on the theoretical work of Rog ...

or systems psychology, a branch of applied psychology based on systems theory and thinking *

Systemic risk In finance, systemic risk is the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or entire market, as opposed to the risk associated with any one individual entity, group or component of a system, that can be contained therein without harming the ...

, the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or market, as opposed to risk associated with any one entity *

Systemic shock A systemic shock is a shock to any system that perturbs a system enough to drive it out of equilibrium. Systemic shocks occur in a wide range of fields, ranging from medicine (see shock), ecology, economics to engineering. Designers of systems ...

, a shock to any system strong enough to drive it out of equilibrium, can refer to a change in many fields *

Systemic therapy In psychotherapy, systemic therapy seeks to address people not only on the individual level, as had been the focus of earlier forms of therapy, but also as people in relationships, dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional p ...

, a school of psychology dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns and dynamics

In medicine

In biology

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