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SEPTICEMIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("septicemia" 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 "septicemia"):

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))

Derivation:

septicemic (characteristic of septicemia)

Credits

 Context examples: 

C. concisus is normally found in the human oral cavity and is a commensal part of the normal flora of the human gastrointestinal tract, but is associated with gingival inflammation, periodontal lesions, Crohn's disease in immunodeficient patients, and is considered responsible for infective gastroenteritis and septicemia seen uniquely in children.

(Campylobacter concisus, NCI Thesaurus)