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Definition: Blood Poisoning |
Blood PoisoningNoun1. Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | A term originally used to denote a putrefactive process in the body, but now usually referring to infection with pyogenic micro-organisms ; a genus of Diptera ; the severe type of infection in which the blood stream is invaded by large numbers of the causal bacteria which multiply in it and spread. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Blood PoisoningSynonyms: septicaemia (n), septicemia (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blood Poisoning |
| English words defined with "blood poisoning": sapraemia, sapremia ♦ Tox/mia, toxaemia, toxemia. (references) |
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Screenplays | But it turned out that he had blood poisoning. (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; writing credit: Jerry Adelman; Daniel Gregory Browne) | |
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Health | Meningitis and blood poisoning pose a constant threat. (references) | |
They can also develop encephalitis, meningitis, or blood poisoning. (references) | ||
However, removing the spleen makes the patient more susceptible to certain infections (e.g., blood poisoning). (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blood poisoning | 132 |
blood poisoning symptom | 18 |
alcohol blood poisoning | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "blood poisoning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | helmim gjaku (toxemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تسمم الدم (toxaemia, toxemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отравяне на кръвта (septicaemia, toxaemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | otrava krve (sepsis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blodforgiftning (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia), septikaemi (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia), sepsis (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bloedvergiftiging (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia), septikemie (septicaemia), septicemie (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia), septicaemia (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia), sepsis (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | verenmyrkytys (blood-poisoning), septikemia (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia), sepsis (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | septicémie, empoisonnement du sang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | blutvergiftung (sepsis), Sepsis (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυαιμία (pyaemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "רעלת "ם (toxaemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vérmérgezés (sepsis, septic infection, septicaemia, septicemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | setticemia (septicaemia, septicemia), sepsi (sepsis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 敗血症 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はいけつしょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pyshoonys folley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodblay oisoningpay septicemia (sepsis, septicaemia). (various references) septicemie (septic poisoning, septicaemia). (various references) заражение крови (blood-poisoning, sepsis, septicaemia, toxaemia). (various references) trovanje krvi. (various references) septicemia (sepsis, septicaemia, septicemia). (various references) blodförgiftning (sepsis, septicaemia, toxaemia, toxemia). (various references) kan zehirlenmesi (pyaemia, sepsis, septemia, septicaemia, septicemia, toxaemia, toxemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Blood Poisoning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bloodpoisoning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-o-o-p-s" | |
-5 letters: bloodings, diobolons, poisoning, spindling. | |
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