septicemia

English

Alternative forms

• septicaemia
• septicæmia

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin septicaemia, from Latin sēpticus + -aemia.

Noun

septicemia (countable and uncountable, 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 pathogens in the blood

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: отравяне на кръвта (otravjane na krǎvta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敗血病／败血病 (zh) (bàixuèbìng), 败血病 (zh) (bàixuèbìng), 敗血症／败血症 (zh) (bàixuèzhèng), 败血症 (zh) (bàixuèzhèng)

• Czech: sepse (cs) f
• Danish: sepsis c
• Dutch: bloedvergiftiging (nl)
• Faroese: blóðeitran f
• Finnish: verenmyrkytys (fi), septikemia
• French: septicémie (fr) f
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• German: Blutvergiftung (de) f, Sepsis (de) f
• Icelandic: blóðeitrun (is) f, blóðsýking f
• Italian: setticemia (it) f
• Maori: mate ero, mate toto ero
• Navajo: kʼaasdá atsʼíístah ahisheegizh
• Portuguese: septicemia (pt) f
• Romanian: septicemie (ro) f
• Russian: септицеми́я (ru) f (sɛpticemíja), се́псис (ru) m (sɛ́psis), зараже́ние кро́ви f (zaražénije króvi)
• Slovak: sepsa (sk) f
• Spanish: septicemia (es) f

See also

• sepsis
• bacteraemia
• pyemia

Anagrams

• episematic

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Portuguese

Etymology

From séptico (“septic”) +‎ -emia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsep.t͡ʃi.se.ˈmi.ɐ/

Noun

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) septicemia (disease caused by pathogens in the bloodstream)

Derived terms

• septicémico

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Spanish

Noun

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

1. septicemia

Further reading

• “septicemia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28