Meaning | invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection. |
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Synonyms | blood poisoning, septicaemia |
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Narrower | fowl cholera | An acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia |
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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 |
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sepsis | The presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues |
Spanish | sepsis, septicemia |
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Catalan | sèpsia, septicèmia |
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Adjectives | septicemic | characteristic of septicemia |
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