polysystemicadj.

1949 J. R. Firth in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1948 151 The time has come to try fresh hypotheses of a polysystemic character... The phonological structure of the sentence and the words which comprise it are to be expressed as a plurality of systems of interrelated phonematic and prosodic categories.

1957 Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1955 28/2 It remains a matter for regret that Firth's polysystemic approach to language has not yet been fully and explicitly formulated, for it is clear..that it has much to offer us.

1964 Language 40 315 Firth..indicated that it is a property of language itself to be irreducibly multistructural and polysystemic.

1986 Eng. World-wide 7 290 The approach was ‘polysystemic’ i.e. different sets of contrasts were established in eleven different structural positions.

1977 Jrnl. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 170 531 (title) Heatstroke in the dog: a polysystemic disorder.

1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 5 Oct. 17 Polysystemic chronic candidiasis.

1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. cxix. 779 Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a polysystemic immune-mediated disease of unknown etiology.

2003 Acta Haematologica 110 71 The consequent accumulation of undigested metabolites in lysosomes leads to polysystemic dysfunction, including progressive neurologic deterioration,..blindness, and early death.

1973 Archivum Linguisticum 4 21 The choice of tone at each place in the structure can be considered polysystemically.