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Definition of Septicemia

1. Noun. Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection.

Definition of Septicemia

1. Noun. (pathology) A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever. ¹

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Definition of Septicemia

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Medical Definition of Septicemia

1. Systemic disease associated with the presence and persistence of pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins in the blood. Synonym: blood poisoning. See: bacteraemia. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (11 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Septicemia

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

1. Pathogenic Microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1917)
"They are found in rabbit septicemia, fowl cholera, swine plague, and a similar ... Chickens are infected even by feeding minute amounts. A septicemia ..."

2. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1915)
"septicemia. Pathology.—After death the body putrefies early. The macroscopic changes in the viscera are often wanting. The muscles present a brownish ..."

3. Pathological Physiology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"septicemia True septicemia.—When bacteria can be recovered from the blood stream a bacteriemia or septicemia is present. Bacteriemias are of two types, ..."

4. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders (1900)
"In protracted septicemia more marked alterations exist, and among them may be briefly enumerated the following : endocarditis (rarely ulcerative) ..."

5. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1914)
"CHAPTER XIX THE BACTERIA OF HEMORRHAGIC septicemia ? BACILLUS PESTIS The term hemorrhagic septicemia was applied by Hueppe in 1886 * to a group of highly ..."

6. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1908)
"CHAPTER XIX THE BACTERIA OF HEMORRHAGIC septicemia) BACILLUS PESTIS The term hemorrhagic ... Bacillus of hemorrhagic septicemia in blood of a bird. ..."

7. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1914)
"CHAPTER XIX THE BACTERIA OF HEMORRHAGIC septicemia f BACILLUS PESTIS The term hemorrhagic septicemia was applied by Hueppe in 1886 * to a group of highly ..."

8. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1910)
"CHAPTER XIX THE BACTERIA OF HEMORRHAGIC septicemia} BACILLUS PESTIS The term ... Bacillus of hemorrhagic short, non-motile bacilli, with septicemia m blood ..."

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