Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Septicemia; sepsis.
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Examples
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Chinamen were shipped away; venal doctors diagnosed the pest as "chicken cholera," "septemia hemorrhagica," "diphtheria" and other known and unknown ailments.
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