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Circulatory adj.

Circular; as, a circulatory letter.

Circulating, or going round.

(Anat.) Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases.

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Etymology of 'Circulatory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Circulatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... equipoise by goodness? But these slender reflections troubled him only for a little time. He had little desire for any introspective quarryings. To feel so well was sufficient in itself. Why should thought be so apparent to us, so insistent? We do not know we have digestive or circulatory organs until these go out of order, and then the knowledge torments us. Should not the labours of a healthy brain be equally subterranean and equally competent? Why have we to think aloud and travel laboriously from syllogism ...

— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens

... of infancy, showing itself usually at or shortly after birth, and is characterized by a diffuse stiffness and rigidity of the integument, accompanied by coldness, [oe]dema, discoloration, lividity and general circulatory disturbance. ...

— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... smoke-stack to carry off the waste, and, similarly, we must have in our bodies an excretory system to remove the waste of the burned-up material and of the used-up tissue of the heart, muscles and nerves. This constitutes the digestive system; the lungs, the excretory system and the circulatory system are absolutely necessary to support the combustion which is going on in nerve and muscle and without which ...

— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall

... paralysis of the medulla, when the respiratory and circulatory centres are paralysed, and the heart muscle itself is ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... your letter. I thought that my letter had been much wilder than yours. I quite feel the comfort of writing when one may "alter one's speculations the day after." It is beyond my knowledge to weigh ranks of birds and monotremes; in the respiratory and circulatory system and muscular energy I believe birds ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... alternations of depression and elevation of the geosynclines probably resulted in releasing the crust from local accumulation of strains arising in the more rigid surface materials. The whole sequence of movements presents an extraordinary picture of pseudo-vitality—reminding us of the circulatory and respiratory systems ...

— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly

Words linked to "Circulatory" : circulatory failure, circulation