| NOUN | state | septicemia, blood poisoning, septicaemia | invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection |
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| Meaning | invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection. | |
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| Synonyms | blood poisoning, septicaemia | |
| Narrower | fowl cholera | An acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia |
| puerperal fever, childbed fever | serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions) | |
| pyemia, pyaemia | septicemia caused by pus-forming bacteria being released from an abscess | |
| shipping fever, shipping pneumonia | A deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep | |
| toxemia, toxaemia | blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood | |
| Broader | blood disease, blood disorder | A disease or disorder of the blood |
| sepsis | The presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues | |
| Spanish | sepsis, septicemia | |
| Catalan | sèpsia, septicèmia | |
| Adjectives | septicemic | characteristic of septicemia |
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