CIRCULATORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does circulatory mean? 

• CIRCULATORY (adjective)
  The adjective CIRCULATORY has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to circulation

2. relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood

  Familiarity information: CIRCULATORY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRCULATORY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to circulation

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

circulative; circulatory

Pertainym:

circulation (free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

circulatory system (the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body)

 Context examples 

When accompanied by circulatory failure and shock (grades III and IV), it is called dengue shock syndrome.

(Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The system of glands that release their secretions (hormones) directly into the circulatory system.

(Endocrine system, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A terminology codelist to describe the timing of mechanical circulatory support placement.

(CDISC SDTM Mechanical Circulatory Support Placement Timing Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Terminology associated with the mechanical circulatory support placement timing codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Mechanical Circulatory Support Placement Timing Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

In this new study, the researchers demonstrated that dietary RNA is taken up from the ingestion system into the bee’s circulatory fluid and spread to the jelly-secreting glands.

(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)

The lymph system, which connects with the blood system, is often considered part of the circulatory system.

(Cardiovascular System, NCI Dictionary)

An Endocrine System Process consists of functions of cellular, cell, or tissue components of glands that release hormones into the circulatory system.

(Endocrine System Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Any process by which signals are passed between two distinct cell types over a distance, typically through the circulatory system.

(Environment-to-Cell Communication, NCI Thesaurus)

A system of neurosecretory neurons that release hormones to the circulatory system.

(Neuroendocrine System, NCI Thesaurus)

A diagnostic procedure to assess the circulatory perfusion of an anatomical location using a magnetic resonance imaging machine.

(Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Thesaurus)