Definition of Bacteriaemia

1. Noun. Transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood.

Exact synonyms: Bacteremia, Bacteriemia
Category relationships: Micro-organism, Microorganism
Generic synonyms: Pathology
Derivative terms: Bacteremic

Medical Definition of Bacteriaemia

1. The presence of viable bacteria circulating in the bloodstream. Origin: Gr. Bakterion, haima = blood (11 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacteriaemia

bacteraemia
bacteraemias
bacteremia
bacteremias
bacteremic
bacteri-
bacteria
bacteria-free stage of bacterial endocarditis
bacteria bed
bacteria family
bacteria genus
bacteria order
bacteria species
bacteriacide
bacteriae
bacteriaemia (current term)
bacterial
bacterial adhesion
bacterial allergy
bacterial antagonism
bacterial capsule
bacterial capsules
bacterial cast
bacterial chemotaxis
bacterial conjunctivitis
bacterial cystitis
bacterial encephalitis
bacterial endarteritis
bacterial endocarditis

Literary usage of Bacteriaemia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine by Arthur Robin Edwards (1907)
"It is frequently difficult or impossible to preserve clinically these types which so often Wend; (a) what is seemingly toxa-mia may prove bacteriaemia on ..."

2. A Manual of General Or Experimental Pathology for Students and Practitioners by Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow (1904)
"From a pathological point of view septicaemia is but a special example of the condition known as ' bacteriaemia,' in which micro-organisms of any sort have ..."

3. Principles of medical pathology by Henri Roger (1905)
"Here two events are possible : Sometimes the primary focus contains the microbes which will invade the economy, in which instance bacteriaemia deserves the ..."

4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"bacteriaemia signifies the mere presence of bacteria in the blood without reference to symptoms, ... Of 10 cases of Pneumococcus bacteriaemia 6 died. ..."

5. Chemical and microscopical diagnosis: By Francis Carter Wood by Francis Carter Wood (1905)
"The bacteriaemia is apparently an agonal phenomenon and the streptococci are not considered to be the specific incitants of the disease. ..."

6. Gynecology by Brooke Melancthon Anspach (1921)
"If the streptococcus is found, the outlook is dubious: the staphylococcus and the bacillus coli communis are less dangerous, although bacteriaemia of any ..."

7. The Treatment of Acute Infectious Diseases by Frank Sherman Meara (1921)
"What relationship of infecting organism and host determines the relatively innocuous bacteriaemia and the profoundly serious septicaemia is not yet clear. ..."

8. Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland by Academy of Medicine in Ireland (1908)
"metastatic bacteriaemia. This, however, leaves out of consideration the cases ... The most dangerous forms of metastatic bacteriaemia seem to be those that ..."

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