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Definition of Circulatory

1. Adjective. Of or relating to circulation.

2. Adjective. Relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood.

Definition of Circulatory

1. a. Circular; as, a circulatory letter.

2. n. A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.

Definition of Circulatory

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a circulation, especially to the circulatory system. ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) A vessel with two portions unequally exposed to heat, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Circulatory

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Circulatory

1. Having to do with the circulation, the movement of fluid in a regular or circuitous course. Although the adjective circulatory need not necessarily refer to the circulation of the blood, for all practical purposes today it does. A circulatory problem is taken usually to be a problem with the blood circulation, for example with heart failure. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Circulatory

circulate circulated circulates circulating circulating(a) circulating decimal circulating library circulation circulation time circulations

circulative circulator circulatories circulatorious circulators circulatory (current term) circulatory and respiratory physiology circulatory arrest circulatory collapse circulatory failure

circulatory system circulatory systems circulene circulet circulets circuline circulus circulus arteriosus cerebri circulus arteriosus halleri circulus arteriosus iridis major

Literary usage of Circulatory

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)
"Chronic hyperemia is due to circulatory, obstructive, chronic local disease ... The circulatory disturbances which are paramount are chronic heart lesions, ..."

2. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1843)
"On the Structure, Relations, and Development of the Nervous and circulatory Systems, and on the Existence of a Complete Circulation of the Blood in Vessels, ..."

3. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"CHAPTER XIX THE circulatory SYSTEM THE circulatory system consists of the ... We shall also have to consider in connection with the circulatory system, ..."

4. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"circulatory System.—The circulatory system is not present below the annelid and nemertean worms and mollusks. In the flatworms, for example, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"The dyspnoea being expiratory in type this renders breathing easier. Tabes Dorsalis, Disease of the circulatory Organs, and Syphilis. ..."

6. Handbook of therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"DEPRESSANTS OF THE NERVOUS AND circulatory SYSTEM The symptoms of ... Immediate Symptoms (if the poison is a circulatory depressant) : Rapid or slow, ..."

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