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The presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues
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sepsis
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sepsis \Sep"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ??? putrefaction.] (Med.) The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.
Wikipedia
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Sepsis is a genus of flies in the family Sepsidae .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE pelvic ▪ One patient with pelvic sepsis developed a pouch-vaginal fistula and ileoanal stenosis culminating in pouch excision. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the same time, fever can make us worse in cases of widespread ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1876, "putrefaction," from Modern Latin sepsis, from Greek sepsis "putrefaction," from sepein "to rot," of unknown origin.
Usage examples of sepsis.
That IV in your arm is just for re hydration and antibiotics to ward off sepsis from your wounds.
The other thing I'd note is simply what the article's about, which turned out to be not so much the campaign of one impressive guy, but rather what McCain's candidacy and the brief weird excitement it generated might reveal about how millennial politics and all its packaging and marketing and strategy and media and Spin and general sepsis makes us U.
I murmured to mys 11, mended dosage of penicillin for bacteremia or sepsis, according to the MerManual, the physician's basic desk reference.
Recom-"Ten thousand to ten million rnilligrams," I murmured to mys 11, mended dosage of penicillin for bacteremia or sepsis, according to the MerManual, the physician's basic desk reference.
Born Nate Furt, the only child of Sepsis and Donna Furt of Cheese Falls, Wisconsin, he went on the vaudeville circuit at sixteen, tap dancing while singing and simultaneously juggling flaming snakes, in blackface.
He died twenty-three hours ago of severe sepsis with multiorgan failure, primarily in the lungs.