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What does systemic circulation mean?

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Noun
  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.
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This matrix-type patch system transports OXY directly into the systemic circulation across intact skin.
In right heart failure, ventricular dysfunction slows blood flow in the systemic circulation.
Thus only minute traces of radioactivity pass into the systemic circulation.
The left heart pumps oxygenated blood out to the systemic circulation.
After synthesis in the bone marrow, they migrate to the systemic circulation and on to the lung.
Even a minute difference between the outputs, if sustained, would very rapidly empty either the pulmonary or the systemic circulation.

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