sepsis

English

Wikipedia ^en

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῆψις (sēpsis, “putrefaction”), from σήπειν (sēpein, “to make rotten”), from σήψ (sēps, “a kind of lizard, also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”).

Noun

sepsis (plural sepses)

1. (pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, and a known or suspected infection is present.

Related terms

• antiseptic
• asepsis
• aseptic
• septic
• septicemia
• septicity

Translations

serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敗血症 (cmn), 败血症 (cmn) (bàixiězhèng)

• Czech: sepse (cs) f
• Dutch: sepsis (nl) f
• Finnish: verenmyrkytys (fi), sepsis (fi)
• French: sepsis (fr) m
• German: Sepsis (de) f

• Hungarian: szepszis (hu)
• Icelandic: graftarsótt (is) f, (septicemia) blóðsýking (is) f, (septicemia) blóðeitrun (is) f
• Japanese: 敗血症 (ja) (はいけつしょう, haiketsushō)
• Russian: сепсис (ru) (sɛ́psis) m, заражение крови (ru) (zaražénije króvi) n, общее заражение (ru) (óbščeje zaražénije) n
• Slovak: sepsa (sk) f

External links

• sepsis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sepsis in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• sepsis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pisses, speiss