septicemia
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- noun
- /ˌsɛp.tɪˈsiː.mi.ə/
- Specialized
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septicemia
- The doctors treated her for septicemia after the infection spread into her bloodstream.
- patients with septicemia
- infection can include septicemia
- primary septicemia
Examples
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Also: In 2009, the in-hospital mortality rate for septicemia was about 16 percent.
Blog text (14) -
E. coli often turns to septicemia with no help from pregnancy or other immune considerations.
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Later, she had a miscarriage and died from septicemia, or blood poisoning.
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Halappanavar died of septicemia, or a blood infection, at the hospital.
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If they really suspected a miscarriage, they should have known that septicemia could result without proper treatment.
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Most patients with primary septicemia report recent consumption of raw oysters, usually from the Gulf of Mexico (2-4).
Academic text (2013) -
Pneumonia was the most common diagnosis (4 patients), followed by septicemia (3) and septic arthritis (1).
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"Primary causes of death: generalized septicemia. That's a bacterial infection in the bloodstream."
Fiction book (1992) -
Illness typically manifests as primary septicemia (following ingestion) or as a wound infection with or without septicemia (following wound exposure).
Academic text (2013) -
Other consequences of infection can include septicemia, meningitis, and stillbirth (FDA, 2001a).
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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A serious infection in the blood that can make the whole body ill
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A serious illness when germs get into the blood and make you very ill
Compounds
- Specialized
A sudden serious disease in animals that makes them bleed and often causes death
How Severe
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Septicemia comes from Greek parts septi- meaning 'rot' or 'infection' and -emia meaning 'blood'. So septicemia literally means 'infection in the blood', which is why it can make the whole body very sick, and you can remember the parts from the word septic and from anemia for the -emia part.