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Septicaemia   Listen
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Septicaemia  n.  (Med.) A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.






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"Septicaemia" Quotes from Famous Books



... of them! But the older, or Strepto, cousin is by far the more dangerous character and desperate individual, giving rise to and being concerned in nearly all the civilized and dangerous wound-fevers—septicaemia, erysipelas, etc. Staphylococcus is a milder and less harmful individual, seldom going farther than to produce the milder forms of festering, discharging, refusing to heal, pustules, etc. He is not to be given a yard of leeway, however, ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson



Words linked to "Septicaemia" :   childbed fever, blood disorder, septicemia, puerperal fever, shipping pneumonia, shipping fever, pyemia, toxaemia, fowl cholera, pyaemia, blood poisoning, blood disease, toxemia, sepsis



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