circulatory system

Questions about circulatory system

What does circulatory system mean?

circulatory system means "the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body".

What is another word for circulatory system?

Close synonyms include cardiovascular system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is circulatory system a common word?

circulatory system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.