septicemia

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from Latin sēpticus + New Latin -emia.

Noun

septicemia (countable and uncountable, plural septicemias)

(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
Chinese:
Mandarin: 敗血病 (zh), 败血病 (zh) (bàixuèbìng), 敗血症 (zh), 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

German: Blutvergiftung (de) f, Sepsis (de) f
Icelandic: blóðeitrun (is) f, blóðsýking f
Maori: mate ero, mate toto ero
Navajo: kʼaasdá atsʼíístah ahisheegizh
Portuguese: septicemia (pt) 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

Anagrams

episematic

Portuguese

Etymology

From séptico (“septic”) +‎ -emia.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsep.t͡ʃi.se.ˈmi.ɐ/

Noun

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

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

Derived terms

septicémico

Spanish

Noun

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

septicemia

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