- of or relating to a system, especially when affecting the entirety of a thing: systemic flaws in the design and construction of the vehicles.
- relating to or noting a policy, practice, or set of beliefs that has been established as normative or customary throughout a political, social, or economic system: systemic inequality;systemic racism.
- Physiology, Pathology.
- relating to or affecting the body as a whole.
- relating to or affecting a particular body system.
- (of a pesticide) absorbed and circulated by a plant or other organism so as to be lethal to pests that feed on it.
- another word for systematic (def. 1), systematic (def. 2)
- (of a poison, disease, etc) affecting the entire body
- (of a pesticide, fungicide, etc) spreading through all the parts of a plant and making it toxic to pests or parasites without destroying it
- a systemic pesticide, fungicide, etc
