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SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does systemic circulation mean? 

SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION (noun)
  The noun SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION has 1 sense:

1. circulation that supplies blood to all the body except to the lungsplay

  Familiarity information: SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION (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)


 Context examples 


Method allows to achieve high concentration of the agent in the tumor and delay drug release in systemic circulation.

(Intratumoral Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon oral administration of the oral rehydration solution (ORS), water, electrolytes and glucose are absorbed from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract into the systemic circulation.

(Oral Rehydration Solution OS-1, NCI Thesaurus)

Method allows to achieve high concentration of the agent in the lesion and delay drug release in systemic circulation.

(Intralesional Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

When orally administered, this agent is minimally absorbed into the systemic circulation, acting locally in the gastrointestinal tract.

(Fidaxomicin, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon application, fentanyl buccal soluble film rapidly releases fentanyl which is quickly absorbed into the systemic circulation.

(Fentanyl Buccal Soluble Film, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon contact with the buccal mucosa, fentanyl citrate buccal tablet rapidly releases fentanyl which is quickly absorbed into the systemic circulation.

(Fentanyl Citrate Buccal Tablet, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of a mass of lung parenchyma that does not communicate with the bronchial tree and receives its blood supply from the systemic circulation instead of the pulmonary circulation.

(Bronchopulmonary Sequestration, NCI Thesaurus)

Absorption rates, delay in availability of the drug to the systemic circulation, and duration of effect are perfusion-limited, depend on molecular size of the agent, volume, and osmolarity of the drug solution, fat content of the injection site, and patient physical activity.

(Intramuscular Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon topical administration, fentanyl diffuses from the transdermal patch through the skin, is transported via the systemic circulation, and selectively binds to the mu-receptor in the central nervous system (CNS), mimicking the effects of endogenous opiates.

(Fentanyl Matrix Transdermal Patch, NCI Thesaurus)

An umbrella term used to describe several very different complex congenital heart defects that share the same problem: the heart has only one functional ventricle (anatomically right or left or indeterminate) supplying the systemic circulation.

(Common Ventricle Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)



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