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Definition of Septicemic plague
1. Noun. An especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Septicemic Plague
Literary usage of Septicemic plague
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reopening Public Facilities After a Biological Attack: A Decision Making by National Research Council (2005)
"However, in some cases, the bacteria spread systemically to cause septicemic
plague, which is characterized by fever, chills, prostration, abdominal pain, ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"septicemic plague septicemic plague runs a rapid course with marked hyperpyrexia,
deep involvement of the nervous system, delirium, coma, rapidly developing ..."
3. Tropical Medicine: With Special Reference to the West Indies, Central by Thomas Wright Jackson (1907)
"septicemic plague is more fatal than glandular plague. Pneumonic Plague.
The pulmonary variety of plague is characterized by its extreme infectiousness and ..."
4. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1909)
"The rectal contents and feces of fleas taken from septicemic plague rats often
contain abundant virulent plague bacilli. Experiments made during the ..."
5. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"But there is another and more fatal form of the disease, known as septicemic
plague, in which buboes are not apparent. Cases of this form run such a rapid ..."
6. Bacteriology: General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1921)
"A generalized blood infection—septicemic plague—may occur either secondarily
following the development of a bubo or of pneumonic plague, or, less commonly, ..."
7. A Manual of the Practice of Medicine: Prepared Especially for Students by Arthur Albert Stevens (1892)
"septicemic plague.—In this comparatively rare form no primary point of infection
can be detected. However, all the lymph-glands are more or less enlarged, ..."
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