Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to systems or a system.
  • adjective Relating to or affecting the entire body or an entire organism.
  • adjective Relating to or affecting a particular body system, especially the nervous system.
  • adjective Physiology Of or relating to systemic circulation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to system or systematization; systematic.
  • In physiology, pertaining to the body as a whole; somatic; common to a general system; not local: as, systemic circulation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or relating to a system; common to a system.
  • adjective (Anat. & Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole.
  • adjective See the Note under Death, n., 1.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.
  • adjective physiology Pertaining to an entire organism.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective affecting an entire system

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Examples

  • In his latest weekly column, Wolf doesn't actually use the term "systemic risk," but everything he says points in that direction.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Robert J. Samuelson 2011

  • In 1895, a renowned physician, Sir William Osier, recognized that some forms of lupus involved more than just a rash and actually affected internal organs, and he added the word systemic to the name.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • In 1895, a renowned physician, Sir William Osier, recognized that some forms of lupus involved more than just a rash and actually affected internal organs, and he added the word systemic to the name.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • In 1895, a renowned physician, Sir William Osier, recognized that some forms of lupus involved more than just a rash and actually affected internal organs, and he added the word systemic to the name.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • —A Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania attorney general Thursday will propose ways of fixing what he calls a systemic failure to protect children from sexual abusers in the state.

    Attorney General Hopeful Wants Child-Sex-Crimes Database Kevin Helliker 2011

  • The probe stemmed in part from a complaint that the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed in September over what it called systemic misconduct in the department and lax oversight.

    Civil Rights Probe in Newark Sean Gardiner 2011

  • Thursday President Obama blamed the incident on what he called a "systemic failure across organizations and agencies."

    Attention Turns to Yemen in Anti-Terror Fight 2010

  • That's why tomorrow is the deadline for the president's national security team where he gave them a deadline for the preliminary findings for what he called systemic and human failures that led to this attempted terror attack.

    CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009 2009

  • They brought in about 50 officers from the academy to do what they call a systemic grid search of several areas related to this crime.

    CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2008 2008

  • But they had many, dozens of police recruits from the Police Academy here in Chicago going on what they called the systemic grid in the area where that missing SUV was found that had the nephew of Jennifer Hudson in it.

    CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2008 2008

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