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Definition: Systemic |
SystemicAdjective1. Affecting an entire system; "a systemic poison". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "systemic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Of a pathogen, capable of spreading throughout its host. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Of a pesticide that is more toxic to pests and pathogens than to their hosts, and being absorbed and permeating some or all of the tissues of the latter, adversely affects and even kills susceptible feeding insects or attacking fungi and bacteria. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | Affecting the entire body. (references) |
Medicine | Pertaining to or affecting the body as a whole. Source: European Union. (references) |
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 | Candida spp. are ubiquitous and colonize over 50% of healthy individuals. Up to 14% of patients with immunocompromising disease develop systemic candidiasis which predominantly infects mucous membranes. Credit: CDC. |  | Septicemia involves the systemic spread of bacteria from a localized origin of infection throughout the body by way of the blood stream. Credit: CDC. |
 | At times non-infectious conjunctivitis, as well as other corneal abnormalities may manifest themselves due to the body's systemic response to viral infections such as infectious mononucleosis, or Epstein-Barr Virus. Credit: CDC. |  | The symptoms associated with cellulitis can evolve and worsen due to systemic bacterial migration via the bloodstream, and include fever, malaise, and chills. Credit: CDC. |
 | This bacterium causes urinary tract infections, respiratory system infections, dermatitis, soft tissue infections, bacteremia and a variety of systemic infections, particularly in cancer and AIDS patients who are immunosuppressed. Credit: CDC. |  | Steps of "exoantigen" technique, used for immunoidentification of systemic dimorphic fungal pathogens including Histoplasma. Chart. Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Treatment for cancer can be either local or systemic. (references) | |
Systemic reactions occur in fewer than 0.2% of recipients. (references) | ||
This can occur in people with systemic lupus erythematosus. (references) | ||
Children | Greece | They cite lack of coordination between welfare services and the courts, inadequate funding of the welfare system, and poor staffing of residential care centers as systemic weaknesses in the treatment of child abuse. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Guinea | Government officials state that a few rogue soldiers are corrupt; however, abuse at official checkpoints is systemic. (references) |
Honduras | Systemic national problems, such as corruption and endemic conflicts of interest, also limit the development of the news media. (references) | |
Discrimination | Saudi Arabia | There is legal and systemic discrimination based on sex and religion. (references) |
Economic History | Colombia | However, inadequate copyright enforcement is a serious systemic problem in Colombia. (references) |
Pakistan | Certain industries remain relatively concentrated, but for industry-specific rather than systemic reasons. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tunisia | The organization receives and researches complaints and protests individual and systemic abuses. (references) |
Bulgaria | Observers have noted modest improvement in the efficiency of moving cases through the criminal system, although many serious systemic flaws remained. (references) | |
Zambia | The report detailed a pattern of widespread torture during the coup investigation and highlighted systemic problems that created a climate of impunity for torture. (references) | |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | The BNB can only refinance commercial banks in the event of systemic risk to the banking system. (references) |
PARAGUAY | Practical application of copyright protection suffers the same systemic challenges as trademark protection. (references) | |
Afghanistan | The overall human rights situation remained extremely poor, and the Taliban committed numerous serious and systemic abuses. (references) | |
Political Rights | Burkina Faso | However, the national observers identified a number of systemic weaknesses in the electoral code that precluded a totally regular and transparent vote, and a coalition representing a number of opposition parties boycotted the election. (references) |
Gabon | In December elections were held for the National Assembly, the lower house of the bicameral legislature; nine opposition parties boycotted the first round of the elections, asserting that procedural and systemic shortcomings made a free and fair election impossible. (references) | |
Trade | New Zealand | Customers' deposits are not covered by any systemic insurance. (references) |
Women | Zimbabwe | Systemic problems and lack of education often mean that police do not respond to women's reports or requests for assistance. (references) |
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| "Systemic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.35% of the time. "Systemic" is used about 307 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.35% | 305 | 16,573 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.65% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 307 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "systemic": systemic anaphylaxis ♦ systemic circulation ♦ systemic crisis ♦ systemic death ♦ systemic disease ♦ systemic exposure ♦ systemic grammar ♦ systemic insecticide ♦ systemic lupus erythematosus ♦ systemic risk ♦ systemic therapy. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "systemic": Systemic-onset. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "systemic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | на целия организъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 系统 (genealogical, system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | systemisk (chemotherapeutic, systematic, systemic insecticide, translocated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | systemisch (chemotherapeutic, translocated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | systeeminen (chemotherapeutic, translocated), sisävaikutteinen (chemotherapeutic, translocated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | systémique (systemic insecticide), systémique, télétoxique (systemic insecticide), insecticide endothérapique, généralisé, général, endothérapique (systemic insecticide), endothérapeutique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | systemisch (translocated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συστημικός, συστηματικός (systematic), συστήματοσ, ενδοθεραπευτικόν,συστεμικόν,μακροτοξικόν (chemotherapeutic, translocated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szervezeti (organizational), rendszerszerű, rendszer-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sistemico (whole body-related). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "系文法 (systemic grammar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいけいぶ"ぽう (systemic grammar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 조직 (organisation, Organization, organizational). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ystemicsay sistémico (chemotherapeutic, systemic insecticide, translocated), sistémico. (various references) системный (sytemic). (various references) sistemski. (various references) sistémico (chemotherapeutic, systemic insecticide, translocated). (various references) systemisk (chemotherapeutic, translocated). (various references) ซี่งเป็นระบบ. (various references) vücut ile ilgili, vücuda ait. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "systemic": systemically, systemics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "systemic": nonsystemic. (additional references) | |
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"Systemic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sestemic, sistemic, systema, systeme, systemics, systime, sytemic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "systemic" (pronounced si'ste"mik) |
| 4 | -e" m i k | academic, endemic, epidemic, nonacademic, pandemic, polemic. |
| 3 | -m i k | aerodynamic, anemic, atomic, autonomic, bulimic, cataclysmic, ceramic, comic, cosmic, cytoplasmic, diatomic, dynamic, economic, electrodynamic, endothermic, ergonomic, exothermic, formic, gastronomic, gimmick, gnomic, hemodynamic, hypodermic, hypoglycemic, hypothalamic, logarithmic, macroeconomic, microeconomic, mimic, monatomic, noneconomic, ophthalmic, organismic, panoramic, patronymic, photodynamic, psychodynamic, rhythmic, samek, seismic, socioeconomic, subatomic, tragicomic, uneconomic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: mystics, stymies. | |
-2 letters: cyesis, misset, mystic, smites, stimes, stymie, system, tmesis. | |
-3 letters: cesti, cissy, cists, cites, cymes, cysts, emits, items, mesic, messy, metis, mises, missy, mists, misty, mites, sects, seism, semis, sices, sites, smite, stems, sties, stime, stimy, styes, syces, times, yetis. | |
-4 letters: cess, cist, cite, city, cyme, cyst, emic, emit, etic, ices, isms. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: systemics. | |
+2 letters: seismicity, syncretism, systematic. | |
+3 letters: cysteamines, dictyosomes, metaphysics, myasthenics, nonsystemic, syncretisms, systematics. | |
+4 letters: dissymmetric, dysphemistic, scyphistomae, semimystical, sympathetics, systemically, unsystematic. | |
+5 letters: actinomycoses, biosystematic, gynecomastias, myocarditises, nonsystematic, phytochemists, polycentrisms, psychometrics, psychometries, semisynthetic, stichomythies, streptomycins. | |
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