English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A simplified diagram of the human circulatory system.
From circulatory + system.
Pronunciation[edit]
circulatory system (plural circulatory systems)
- (physiology) The parts of an animal body comprising the heart, blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries), and blood, which circulate the blood around the body. [from mid 19th c.]
- Synonyms: (by some writers) cardiovascular system, (by some writers) vascular system, (loosely) circulation
- (technology) The parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid.
Usage notes[edit]
Some writers treat cardiovascular system and vascular system as synonymous with circulatory system. Others regard these terms as hyponyms.
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Translations[edit]
parts of an animal body which circulate the blood around the body
- Afrikaans: bloedsomloopstelsel
- Arabic: جِهَاز اَلدَّوَرَان m (jihāz ad-dawarān)
- Egyptian Arabic: جهاز الدوران m (gehaaz el dawaraan)
- Armenian: արյան շրջանառություն (aryan šrǰanaṙutʻyun)
- Assamese: সংবহন তন্ত্ৰ (xoṅbohon tontro)
- Asturian: sistema circulatoriu (ast) m
- Basque: zirkulazio-sistema, sistema baskularra, sistema kardiobaskularra, zirkulazio-aparatua
- Belarusian: сістэма кровазвароту (sistema krovazvarotu)
- Bengali: সংবহন তন্ত্র (śoṅbohon tontro)
- Breton: gwazhiadurezh
- Bulgarian: кръвоносна система (krǎvonosna sistema), кръвообращението (bg) (krǎvoobraštenieto), сърдечно-съдова система (sǎrdečno-sǎdova sistema)
- Burmese: နှလုံး သွေးကြောစနစ် (hna.lum: swe:krau:ca.nac)
- Catalan: sistema circulatori m
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: sûn-khoân hē-thóng (zh-min-nan)
- Mandarin: 循環系統／循环系统 (zh) (xúnhuán xìtǒng)
- Czech: oběhová soustava f
- Danish: blodkredsløb n
- Dhivehi: ލޭދައުރުކުރާ ނިޒާމް (lēdaurukurā nizām̊)
- Dutch: bloedvatenstelsel (nl) n
- Estonian: kardiovaskulaarsüsteem, südame ja soonte süsteem, südame-veresoonkond, tsirkulatsioonisüsteem, vereringeelundkond
- Finnish: verenkiertojärjestelmä
- French: circulation sanguine (fr) f
- Galician: aparato circulatorio (gl)
- Georgian: სისხლის მიმოქცევის სისტემა (sisxlis mimokcevis sisṭema)
- German: Blutbahn (de) f, Blutgefäßsystem n, Blutkreislauf (de) m
- Greek: κυκλοφορικό σύστημα (el) n (kykloforikó sýstima)
- Gujarati: રુધિરાભિસરણ તંત્ર (rudhirābhisraṇ tantra)
- Hebrew: מחזור הדם (he) m
- Hindi: परिसंचरण तंत्र (parisañcraṇ tantra)
- Hungarian: keringési rendszer (hu), szív- és érrendszer
- Icelandic: blóðrásarkerfið, hjarta og æðakerfið
- Ilocano: sistema ti sirkulatorio, sistema ti panagbalikuskos
- Indonesian: sistem kardiovaskular, sistem peredaran darah
- Interlingua: systema circulatori
- Irish: cardashoithíoch, córas imsruthaithe
- Italian: sistema circolatorio m, apparato circolatorio (it) m
- Japanese: 循環器 (ja) (じゅんかんき, junkanki)
- Kannada: ರಕ್ತಪರಿಚಲನೆಯ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ (raktaparicalaneya vyavasthe)
- Kazakh: қанайналым жүйесі (qanainalym jüiesı)
- Korean: 순환계(循環系) (sunhwan'gye)
- Latvian: asinsrites orgānu sistēma
- Lithuanian: kraujotakos sistema
- Malay: sistem kardiovaskular, sistem peredaran
- Malayalam: രക്തചംക്രമണവ്യൂഹം (raktacaṅkramaṇavyūhaṁ)
- Maori: pūnaha toto, pūnaha rere toto
- Marathi: रक्तवाहन यंत्रणा (raktavāhan yantraṇā)
- North Frisian: bludkreisluup, kreisluup
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sirkulasjonssystem
- Nynorsk: krinsløpssystemet, sirkulasjonssystemet
- Occitan: sistèma circulatòri m
- Persian: دستگاه گردش
- Polish: układ krwionośny człowieka
- Portuguese: sistema circulatório m
- Punjabi: ਖੂਨ ਸੰਚਾਰ ਪ੍ਰਣਾਲੀ (khūn sañcār prṇālī)
- Romanian: sistem cardiovascular (ro) n, aparat cardiovascular (ro) n
- Russian: сердечно-сосудистая систе́ма (ru) (serdečno-sosudistaja sistéma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: cirkulatorni sistem, kardiovaskularni sistem
- Sinhalese: රුධිර සංසරණ පද්ධතිය (rudhira saṁsaraṇa paddhatiya)
- Slovak: kardiovaskulárny systém, obehová sústava, srdcovocievna sústava
- Slovene: cirkulacijski sistem, cirkulatorni sistem, obtočila
- Spanish: sistema circulatorio m
- Swedish: cirkulationssystem (sv) n
- Tagalog: sistemang sirkulatoryo
- Tamil: சுற்றோட்டத் தொகுதி (cuṟṟōṭṭat tokuti)
- Telugu: రక్త ప్రసరణ వ్యవస్థ (te) (rakta prasaraṇa vyavastha)
- Thai: ระบบไหลเวียน
- Turkish: dolaşım sistemi (tr)
- Ukrainian: серцево-судинна система людини (sercevo-sudynna systema ljudyny)
- Urdu: قلبی وِ عائی نظام (parisañcraṇ tantra)
- Vietnamese: hệ tuần hoàn (vi)
- Welsh: system gylchredol
- West Frisian: bloedfettestelsel, bloedsomrin
- Yoruba: ètò ìṣọ̀n ẹ̀jẹ̀
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parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid
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Further reading[edit]
circulatory system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “circulatory system, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
