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 organ (biology), organs that work together to perform one or more bodily functions. Each organ has a specialized role in an organism body, and is made up of distinct Tissue (biolog ...
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Systemic administration, a route of administration of medication so that the entire body is affected
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Systemic circulation
In vertebrates, the circulatory system is a organ system, system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the body. It includes the cardiovascular system, or vascular system, that consists of ...
, carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the body and then returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart
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Systemic disease
A systemic disease is one that affects a number of Organ (anatomy), organs and Tissue (biology), tissues, or affects the Human body, body as a whole. It differs from a localized disease, which is a disease affecting only part of the body (e.g., ...
, an illness that affects multiple organs, systems or tissues, or the entire body
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Systemic effect, an adverse effect of an exposure that affects the body as a whole, rather than one part
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Systemic inflammatory response syndrome
In immunology, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is an inflammation, inflammatory state affecting the whole body. It is the body's Immune response, response to an infectious or noninfectious Insult (medical), insult. Although the ...
, an inflammatory state affecting the whole body, frequently in response to infection
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Systemic lupus erythematosus
Lupus, formally called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in many parts of the body. Symptoms vary among people and may be mild to severe. Common ...
, a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part of the body
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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 ...
, also known as systemic sclerosis, a systemic connective tissue disease
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Systemic venous system, refers to veins that drain into the right atrium without passing through two vascular beds
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Systemic exertion intolerance disease, a new name for chronic fatigue syndrome proposed by the Institute of Medicine in 2015
In biology
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Systemic acquired resistance, a "whole-plant" resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen
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Systemic pesticide, a pesticide that enters and moves freely within the organism under treatment
Other uses
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Systemic (amateur extrasolar planet search project), a research project to locate extrasolar planets using distributed computing
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Systemic (album)'', a 2023 album by the band
Divide and Dissolve
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Systemic bias, the inherent tendency of a process to favor particular outcomes
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Systemic functional grammar
Systemic functional grammar (SFG) is a form of grammatical description originated by Michael Halliday. It is part of a social semiotics, semiotic approach to language called ''systemic functional linguistics''. In these two terms, ''systemic'' ...
, a model of grammar that considers language as a system
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Systemic functional linguistics
Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is an approach to linguistics, among functional linguistics, that considers language as a social semiotic system.
It was devised by Michael Halliday, who took the notion of system from J. R. Firth, his ...
, an approach to linguistics that considers language as a system
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Systemic psychology or systems psychology, a branch of applied psychology based on systems theory and thinking
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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
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Systemic shock, a shock to any system strong enough to drive it out of equilibrium, can refer to a change in many fields
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Systemic therapy
Systemic therapy is a type of psychotherapy that seeks to address people in relationships, dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns and dynamics.
Early forms of systemic therapy were based on cybernetics and syste ...
, a school of psychology dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns and dynamics
See also
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Systematic (disambiguation)
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Systematics (disambiguation) In biology, systematics studies the diversity of organismal characteristics.
Systematics may also refer to:
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Systemics
In the context of systems science and systems philosophy, systemics is an initiative to study systems. It is an attempt at developing logical, mathematical, engineering and philosophical paradigms and frameworks in which physical, technological, ...
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