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SEPSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("sepsis" is a kind of...):
infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sepsis"):
blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)
sapraemia; sapremia (blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter)
Derivation:
septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)
septic (of or relating to or caused by putrefaction)
Context examples:
Causes include injury, sepsis, drug overdose, and pancreatitis.
(Acute Respiratory Failure, NCI Thesaurus)
Sepsis is responsible for a million infant deaths per year, most of them in the developing world, but options to prevent it are limited.
(Friendly gut bacteria can help fight infant deaths, SciDev.Net )
Researchers also found that new cases of AKI are increasing among hospitalized patients, likely due to an aging population and rising rates of sepsis, a potentially life-threatening blood infection that can cause AKI.
(Acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease each a risk of the other, NIH)
There are indications that an immature granulocyte count is a better measure of infection and sepsis than a total white blood cell count and comparable to absolute neutrophil count.
(Immature Granulocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
C. ochracea is a member of the normal gingival flora but can become pathogenic causing sepsis especially in immunocompromised individuals.
(Capnocytophaga ochracea, NCI Thesaurus)
B. casei has a distinctive cheese smell, is commonly found in milk products and on human skin, but is pathogenic and known to be associated with sepsis, meningitis, and peritonitis.
(Brevibacterium casei, NCI Thesaurus)
By binding to endotoxins, J5 antiserum prevents the initiation of a cascade of events in host cells, including the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines that eventually leads to the sepsis syndrome.
(J5 Antiserum, NCI Thesaurus)
When sepsis patients recovered and the inflammation was reduced, the expression of the clock genes was also stabilised.
(New study sheds fresh light on the genetic mechanisms involved in sepsis, the leading cause of death in ICUs, University of Granada)
Unfortunately, many patients with sepsis have problems with their adrenal glands, so electroacupuncture likely wouldn’t help them.
(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)
Sepsis or death occurred in nine per cent of the placebo group and in just 5.4 per cent of the synbiotic group, showing a reduction of 40 per cent.
(Friendly gut bacteria can help fight infant deaths, SciDev.Net )
