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Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection
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septicaemia
Word definitions for septicaemia in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of septicemia English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Septicaemia \Sep`ti*c[ae]"mi*a\, n. [NL., from Gr. ??? putrefactive + ??? blood.] (Med.) A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Although he is suffering from a type of septicaemia , he is clearly having a good spell. ▪ Cannulation and contrast injection of an occluded, and often already infected, bile duct may precipitate overt cholangitis or septicaemia ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection [syn: blood poisoning , septicemia ]
Usage examples of septicaemia.
But the bacteria that live in a dragon's saliva are so virulent that the wounds will not heal and the animal will usually die in a few days of septicaemia, whereupon the dragon can eat it at leisure.
A young female gorilla called Jozi, for example, caught her hand in a wire antelope snare and eventually died of septicaemia in August 1988.
She had seen again and again the misery of girls with an unreckoned child, and again and again she had seen the septicaemia, the protracted poisoned deaths of girls who underwent the lethal curettage of crochet hooks and wires.
There's not much point in worrying about dying of septicaemia in the next week when you might have your head blown off in the next thirty seconds.