Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Systemic infection of the blood by pathogenic microorganisms, especially bacteria, that originate from a localized source.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sepsis.
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- noun pathology A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially
bacteria , or their toxins, in thebloodstream , characterised by chills and fever.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And in the next couple of days, they could develop what's called septicemia, which is a blood-borne infection which can kill very quickly.
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Once septicemia is advanced, antibiotic therapy may prove useless, probably because the exotoxins remain, despite the death of the bacteria.
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The disease eventually results in septicemia (blood poisoning), and the mortality is high.
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At what must've been the 6th or 7th day in hospital, the word septicemia was used to describe the infection.
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No one had educated her on the seriousness of septicemia, which is what she had when she entered the hospital, or of endocarditis, which she had already developed between the first series of tests in the hospital and the second.
Francine Hardaway: System Failure: Health Care Francine Hardaway 2011
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No one had educated her on the seriousness of septicemia, which is what she had when she entered the hospital, or of endocarditis, which she had already developed between the first series of tests in the hospital and the second.
Francine Hardaway: System Failure: Health Care Francine Hardaway 2011
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Deaths from the bloodstream infection called septicemia fell by 3.6 percent and deaths caused by flu and pneumonia dropped a significant 8.5 percent.
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In 2006, thousands of fish died from viral hemorrhagic septicemia, which is a disease that is comparable to the Ebola virus for fish.
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In severe HH the disorder manifests as potentially life threatening conditions such as septicemia, cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, diabetes, heart failure and heart arrhythmias.
Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis VII: Harry Hopkins 2009
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The overproduction of these cytokines has harmful pathophysiological effects on the host, such as septicemia and lethal septic shock.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Marco M. Domingues et al. 2009
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