systemic circulation

systemic circulation

English

Heart and circulatory system:
systemic circulation on the right side; pulmonary circulation on the left side.

Noun

systemic circulation (countable and uncountable, plural systemic circulations)

1. (anatomy) The part of blood circulation which carries oxygenated blood away from the heart, to the body, and returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart.

Related terms

• pulmonary circulation
• arterial circulation
• venous circulation
• coronary circulation
• collateral circulation

Translations

part of blood circulation

Afrikaans: liggaamsomloop, groot bloedsomloop, sistemiese sirkulasie Azerbaijani: böyük qan dövranı Chinese: Mandarin: 體循環／体循环 (zh) (tǐxúnhuán) Danish: det systemiske kredsløb n, kropskredsløbet n Dutch: grote bloedsomloop m Finnish: suuri verenkierto German: großer Blutkreislauf m, systemischer Kreislauf m, Körperkreislauf m Icelandic: líkamsblóðrás f Italian: grande circolazione f, circolazione sistemica f Japanese: 体循環 (ja) (たいじゅんかん, taijunkan) Norwegian: Bokmål: store kretsløp n Swedish: systemkretsloppet (sv) n, stora kretsloppet n Turkish: büyük kan dolaşımı (tr)

See also

• circulatory system
• lymphatic system
• nitrogen cycle
• carbon cycle
• oxygen cycle
• hydrogen cycle
• respiration