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Definition of Circulatory 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
Definition of Circulatory system
1. Noun. (physiology) The parts of a animal body comprising the heart, veins, capillaries and arteries. ¹
2. Noun. The parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Circulatory system
1. The circulatory system is a composed of the heart, arteries, capillaries and veins. It serves to transport blood low in oxygen from the body to the lungs and heart (veins) and oxygenated blood from the lungs and heart throughout the body (arteries). (see heart, blood). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circulatory System
Literary usage of Circulatory system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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, ..."
2. 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, ..."
3. 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)
"(c) Symptoms and Signs in the circulatory system (1) Tachycardia; (2) bradycardia; (3)
changes in conduction time (dromotropic disturbances) ; (4) pulsus ..."
4. The Early Embryology of the Chick by Bradley Merrill Patten (1920)
"V. The circulatory system. The heart; the aortic arches; the fusion of the dorsal
aortae; the cardinal and omphalomesenteric vessels. VI. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"THE ENERGY INDEX OF THE circulatory system. BY JOSEPH H. BARACH, MD, PITTSBURGH,
PENNSYLVANIA. VARIOUS methods of estimating the ..."