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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
septicaemia
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.
▪ Fragments of rotting flesh lodged under the claws pose a high risk of septicaemia.
▪ In drug addiction, infections such as hepatitis and septicaemia get into the blood stream through infected needles.
▪ It would also protect against septicaemia in which bacteria multiply unchecked in the blood, possibly causing death without prompt treatment.
▪ Lewis died 7 May 1886 at his home in Woolston, near Southampton, from pneumonia, possibly aggravated by septicaemia.
▪ Pneumococcal septicaemia in context of pneumonia not included.
▪ Small shot one sheep half-paralysed by septicaemia, and brought in seven ewes that had lost lambs or fallen ill.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Septicaemia

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, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.

Wiktionary
septicaemia

n. (alternative spelling of septicemia English)

septicæmia

n. (context pathology English) blood poisoning; sepsis of the blood.

WordNet
septicaemia

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.