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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to circulation.
  • adjective Of or relating to the circulatory system.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Moving over or through a circuit.
  • Pertaining to circulation, as of the blood: as, the circulatory vessels.
  • noun In old chemistry, a glass vessel in which a fluid was submitted to the process of circulation. Several kinds were in use, but the two chiefly used were called the pelican or blind atembic and the diota.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.
  • adjective Circular.
  • adjective Circulating, or going round.
  • adjective (Anat.) Subserving the purposes of circulation; ; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a circulation, especially to the circulatory system.
  • noun chemistry A vessel with two portions unequally exposed to heat, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to circulation
  • adjective relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood

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Examples

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  • FDA-cleared TandemHeart can be placed rapidly by both interventional cardiologists in a cath lab and by cardiac surgeons in an operating room to provide short-term circulatory support to patients requiring additional cardiac assistance.

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  • As part of their thesis, a total of 99 patients with life-threatening heart failure were treated with a heart pump for short - or long-term circulatory support.

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  • a heart pump for short - or long-term circulatory support.

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  • Hence an updated traditional standard, which we might call the circulatory-respiratory standard: death as the irreversible cessation of circulatory-respiratory function.

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  • This increase is expected to cause a rise in chronic conditions, such as circulatory and respiratory diseases and cancer.

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