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Septicaemia

Septicaemia Meaning & Definition
Septicaemia Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Septicaemia?

[n] invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection

Synonyms | Synonyms for Septicaemia: blood poisoning | septicemia

Related Terms | Find terms related to Septicaemia:

See Also | blood disease | blood disorder | childbed fever | fowl cholera | puerperal fever | pyaemia | pyemia | sepsis | shipping fever | shipping pneumonia | toxaemia | toxemia

Septicaemia In Webster's Dictionary

\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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