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• articulatory system go
  the system of joints in the body
  
• digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium go
  the system that makes food absorbable into the body
  
• endocrine system go
  the system of glands that produce endocrine secretions that help to control bodily metabolic activity
  
• venation, venous blood system go
  (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal
  
• immune system go
  a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response
  
• integumentary system go
  the skin and its appendages
  
• reticuloendothelial system, RES go
  a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells
  
• mononuclear phagocyte system, MPS, system of macrophages go
  a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow
  
• muscular structure, musculature, muscle system go
  the muscular system of an organism
  
• musculoskeletal system go
  the system of muscles and tendons and ligaments and bones and joints and associated tissues that move the body and maintain its form
  
• nervous system, systema nervosum go
  the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells
  
• central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale go
  the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord
  
• peripheral nervous system, systema nervosum periphericum go
  the section of the nervous system lying outside the brain and spinal cord
  
• reproductive system, genital system go
  organs and tissues involved in the production and maturation of gametes and in their union and subsequent development as offspring
  
• urogenital system, urogenital apparatus, urinary system, urinary apparatus, genitourinary system, genitourinary apparatus, systema urogenitale, apparatus urogenitalis go
  the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine
  
• respiratory system, systema respiratorium go
  the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide
  
• sensory system go
  the body's system of sense organs
  
• tract go
  a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose
  
• vascular system go
  the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant
  
• frame, skeleton, skeletal system, systema skeletale go
  the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal