Systemic

Systemic refers to something that is spread throughout, system-wide, affecting a group or system such as a body, economy, market or society as a whole. Systemic may also refer to:

In medicine

In medicine, systemic means affecting the whole body, or at least multiple organ systems. It is in contrast with topical or local.

• Systemic disease, an illness that affects multiple organs, systems or tissues, or the entire body
• Systemic administration, a route of administration of medication so that the entire body is effected
• Systemic effect, an adverse effect of a medical treatment that affects the body as a whole, rather than one part
• Systemic circulation, carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the body and then returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart
• Systemic venous system, refers to veins that drain into the right atrium without passing through two vascular beds
• Systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part of the body
• Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, an inflammatory state affecting the whole body, frequently in response to infection
• Systemic scleroderma, also known as systemic sclerosis, a systemic connective tissue disease
• Systemic acquired resistance, a "whole-plant" resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen
• Systemic pesticide, a pesticide that enters and moves freely within the organism under treatment

Other uses

• Systemic bias, the inherent tendency of a process to favor particular outcomes
• Systemic (amateur extrasolar planet search project), a research project to locate extrasolar planets using distributed computing
• Systemic linguistics, an approach to linguistics that considers language as a system
• Systemic functional grammar, also called systemic functional linguistics, a model of grammar that considers language as a system
• Systemic risk, the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or market, as opposed to risk associated with any one entity
• Systemic shock, a shock to any system strong enough to drive it out of equilibrium, can refer to a change in many fields
• Systemic therapy, a school of psychology dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns and dynamics
• Systems psychology, also called systemic psychology, a branch of applied psychology based on systems theory and thinking

See also

• Systemics
• Systematics