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septi- |
septic |
septic sore throat |
septic tank |
septicæmia |
septicaemia
| septical
| septically
| septicemia
| septicemic
| septicemic plague
septicaemia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun septicaemia has 1 sense
- septicaemia(n = noun.state) blood poisoning, septicemia - invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection; Array is a kind of sepsis, blood disease, blood disorder
has particulars: childbed fever, puerperal fever, pyaemia, pyemia, toxaemia, toxemia, fowl cholera, shipping fever, shipping pneumonia
OXFORD DICTIONARY
septicaemia, n. (US septicemia) blood-poisoning.
Derivative
septicaemic adj.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk septikos + haima blood
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