relating to a process that affects the body generally; in this instance, the way in which blood is supplied through the aorta to all body organs except the lungs
Throughout the body, as opposed to "local " A drug administered systemically (intravenously, for example) travels throughout the whole body in the bloodstream
Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases
Systemic chemicals or drugs are absorbed into the whole of an organism such as a plant or person, rather than being applied to one area. affecting the whole of something
Affecting the whole organism; systemic medicine is administered either orally or by injection and reaches cells throughout the body by travelling through the bloodstream