SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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)

Credits

 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)