System

(sis’- tern) [avar?/pa, from avv, together; IcTavai, to stand]. I. A methodic arrangement. 2. A combination of parts into a whole, as the digestive S., the nervous S. 3. The body as a whole. S. -disease, S.-lesion, a disease of the cerebrospinal axis affecting a tract of nerve-fibers or nerve-cells having common anatomic relations and physiologic properties. 615