Definition of Bacteriemia

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

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

Definition of Bacteriemia

1. Noun. bacteremia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacteriemia

bacterial wilt disease
bacterialization
bacterializations
bacterially
bacterials
bacterias
bacteric
bactericholia
bactericidal
bactericidally
bactericide
bactericides
bactericidin
bactericidins
bacterid
bacteriemia (current term)
bacterin
bacterins
bacterio-
bacterioagglutinin
bacteriochlorin
bacteriochlorophyll
bacteriochlorophyll a synthase
bacteriochlorophylls
bacteriocidal
bacteriocide
bacteriocidic
bacteriocidin
bacteriocin
bacteriocin factors

Literary usage of Bacteriemia

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

1. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"bacteriemia. bacteriemia, or the presence of bacteria in the OCCURRENCE, circulating blood, is a condition associated with a number of infectious diseases, ..."

2. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of microscopic and chemical methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"Pyogenic bacteriemia. Technique.—The general technique is the same as that ... Staphylococcus bacteriemia is more common than was formerly supposed. ..."

3. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"bacteriemia DUE TO BACILLUS DIPHTHERIAE* H. WINDSOR WADE (.From the Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratories, School of Medicine, ..."

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