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Inflight activity of the sympathetic nervous system, assessed by measuring catecholamines and their metabolites and precursors in body fluids, generally seems to be no greater than on Earth, but this system is usually activated at landing.

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  1. noun A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.
  2. noun A functionally related group of elements, especially:
  3. noun The human body regarded as a functional physiological unit.

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  • My ordering the sorties was but a function within the system, and my presence in the system was almost as defiant of rationality as the system itself. —  The Divine Wind
  • Deciding on the infrastructure for a system is as important as defining its classes, objects and workflows. —  MSDN Blogs
  • • While the system will be able to produce performance updates as often as data is entered into the system, it is anticipated that weekly and monthly reports will be made available for internal staff purposes, and quarterly reports will be produced for the City Council and the community. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • One of the costs for a system is the monitor for sure, the system price mentioned above includes this screen, a SAMSUNG Syncmaster 2493HM 24inch, it has a native resolution of 1920x1200 this screen offers quite low 5ms latency. —  OCTools
  • Inflight activity of the sympathetic nervous system, assessed by measuring catecholamines and their metabolites and precursors in body fluids, generally seems to be no greater than on Earth, but this system is usually activated at landing. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Late Latin systēma, systēmat-, from Greek sustēma, from sunistanai, to combine : sun-, syn- + histanai, set up, establish; see stā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also systeme; = French système = Spanish sistema = Portuguese systema = Italian sistema = Dutch systeem = G. Swedish Danish system, from Late Latin systema, from Greek σύσ, σ1τημα, a whole compounded of several parts, an arrangement, system, from συνισ, σ1τάναι, set together, put together, combine, compound, mid. stand together, from σύν, together, + ἱστάναι, στῆναι, set up, cause to stand: see stand.
 

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