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
• Indonesian: peredaran darah besar, sirkulasi sistemik
• 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