Meaning of SEPTICAEMIA
| Pronunciation: | | `septi'seemeeu
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| | Definition: | | [n] invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection |
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| | Synonyms: | | blood poisoning, septicemia |
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| | See Also: | | blood disease, blood disorder, childbed fever, fowl cholera, puerperal fever, pyaemia, pyemia, sepsis, shipping fever, shipping pneumonia, toxaemia, toxemia | |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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