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Definition of Cardiovascular system
1. Noun. The organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body.
Group relationships: Body, Organic Structure, Physical Structure
Terms within: Liver, Heart, Pump, Ticker, Blood Stream, Bloodstream, Lymph, Blood Vessel, Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel, Venation, Venous Blood System, Lymph Gland, Lymph Node, Node
Generic synonyms: Vascular System
Specialized synonyms: Fetal Circulation, Foetal Circulation
Medical Definition of Cardiovascular system
1. The heart and the blood vessels by which blood is pumped and circulated through the body. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiovascular System
Literary usage of Cardiovascular system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Specific Diseases of the cardiovascular system Arteritis.—The classic work of
Heubner, in which he called attention to the importance of lesions of the ..."
2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"cardiovascular system The cardiovascular system distributes food, ... An understanding
of the cardiovascular system is particularly relevant to chapters 9, ..."
3. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1901)
"THE cardiovascular system IN INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS BY WJ CONKLIN, MD, DAYTON In
interstitial nephritis we have to deal with an insidious slowly-progressing ..."
4. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by jr John C Da Costa (1919)
"SECTION V EXAMINATION OF THE cardiovascular system CLINICAL ANATOMY THE heart
and its pericardial investment occupy the middle medi- ..."
5. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"... should not be lightly undertaken, but approached with due respect for the
cardiovascular system. The very finest needles should be used. ..."
6. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"... hedgehog is that after the injection of extract of thyroid the temperature
rises from 9° to 30° C. Action of the Thyroid on the cardiovascular system. ..."
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