septicaemia

See also: septicæmia

English

Noun

septicaemia (countable and uncountable, plural septicaemias)

1. Alternative spelling of septicemia

Latin

Etymology

New Latin, from sēpticus (“putrifying”), from Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “septic”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seːp.tiˈkae̯.mi.a/, [s̠eːpt̪ɪˈkäe̯miä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sep.tiˈt͡ʃe.mi.a/, [sept̪iˈt͡ʃɛːmiä]

Noun

sēpticaemia f (genitive sēpticaemiae); first declension

1. septicemia
   • 1904, F. J. Poynton & W. V. Shaw, "On the relation of Staphylococcus pyogenes aueus to rheumatic fever", Transactions of the Pathological Society of London, 55: 127-128

     Quotiens autem injectio staphylococci aurei injectionem diplococci rheumatici subsequebatur, totiens evenit morbus quidam pyæmicus, aut septicaemia quae cito mortem attulit.

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Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēpticaemia	sēpticaemiae
Genitive	sēpticaemiae	sēpticaemiārum
Dative	sēpticaemiae	sēpticaemiīs
Accusative	sēpticaemiam	sēpticaemiās
Ablative	sēpticaemiā	sēpticaemiīs
Vocative	sēpticaemia	sēpticaemiae