systemic

systemic

English

Etymology

system +‎ -ic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛmɪk

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Adjective

systemic (not comparable)

1. Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a whole system, group, body, economy, market, or society.
2. (physiology) Pertaining to an entire organism.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with systematic (“methodical”).

Antonyms

• topical
• (widespread, prevalent): endemic

Derived terms

• episystemic
• geosystemic
• macrosystemic
• mesosystemic
• metasystemic
• microsystemic
• multisystemic
• nonsystemic
• pansystemic
• polysystemic
• portosystemic
• systemical
• systemically
• systemic circulation
• systemicity
• systemic lupus erythematosus
• systemic therapy
• transsystemic

 

Related terms

• system
• systematic
• systematization
• systematize

 

Translations

relating to a system

Catalan: sistèmic (ca) Czech: systémový (cs) Danish: systemisk

Finnish: systeeminen Hungarian: rendszerszerű Serbo-Croatian: sistemsko Spanish: sistémico

pertaining to an entire organism

Catalan: sistèmic (ca) Finnish: systeeminen French: systémique (fr)

Italian: sistemico (it) Portuguese: sistêmico (pt) Spanish: sistémico

See also

• embedded