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    BLOOD POISONING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infectionplay

    Synonyms:

    blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("blood poisoning" is a kind of...):

    sepsis (the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues)

    blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood poisoning"):

    childbed fever; puerperal fever (serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon)

    pyaemia; pyemia (septicemia caused by pus-forming bacteria being released from an abscess)

    toxaemia; toxemia (blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood)

    fowl cholera (an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia)

    shipping fever; shipping pneumonia (a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market))

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