septicemia

Wikipedia

English

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin sēpticus + New Latin -emia

Alternative forms

• septicaemia
• septicæmia

Noun

septicemia (plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever.

Synonyms

• blood poisoning
• septic fever

Derived terms

• septicemic

Translations

disease caused by pathogenic organisms in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever

• Czech: sepse (cs) f
• Danish: sepsis (da) c
• Faroese: blóðeitran (fo) f
• Finnish: verenmyrkytys (fi), septikemia (fi)
• French: septicémie (fr) f
• German: Blutvergiftung (de) f, Sepsis (de) f

• Icelandic: blóðeitrun (is) f, blóðsýking (is) f
• Portuguese: septicemia (pt) f
• Russian: септицемия (ru) (sɛpticemíja) f , сепсис (ru) (sɛ́psis) m , заражение крови (ru) (zaražénije króvi) f 
• Slovak: sepsa (sk) f
• Spanish: septicemia (es) f

See also

• sepsis
• bacteraemia
• pyemia