Septicaemia

Definition: Septicaemia

Septicaemia

Noun

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

Date "septicaemia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Etymology: Septicaemia \Sep`ti*c[ae]"mi*a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression putrefactive blood.]. (Websters 1913)

"Septicaemia" is a common misspelling or typo for: septicemia.

Domain	Definitions
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: Septicaemia

Synonyms: blood poisoning (n), septicemia (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Septicaemia

English words defined with "septicaemia": Septaemia. (references)

Specialty definitions using "septicaemia": avian pseudotuberculosis ♦ canary cholera ♦ haemorrhagic bovine septicaemia, haemorrhagic septicaemia, haemorrhagic septicaemia of cattle, haemorrhagic septicaemia of the fowl ♦ listerellosis, Listeria monocytogenes infection ♦ serotypes. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Septicaemia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (septicaemia), Latin (calve, calves, septicaemia of calves).

Domain	Title
Books	European septicaemia and septic shock therapy markets (reference) Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (reference) (more book examples)
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"Septicaemia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.87% of the time. "Septicaemia" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.87%	46	50,285
Noun (proper)	2.13%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	47	N/A

Expressions using "septicaemia": haemorrhagic bovine septicaemia ♦ haemorrhagic septicaemia ♦ haemorrhagic septicaemia of cattle ♦ haemorrhagic septicaemia of the fowl. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "septicaemia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		septicemi, helmim gjaku nga mikrobet. (various references)

Bulgarian		отравяне на кръвта (blood poisoning, toxaemia). (various references)

Chinese		敗血症 . (various references)

Danish		septikaemi (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia), septicaemia, sepsis (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia), blodforgiftning (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia). (various references)

Dutch		septikemie (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia). (various references)

Finnish		septikemia (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia), sepsis (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia), verenmyrkytys (blood poisoning, blood-poisoning, sepsis, septicemia). (various references)

French		septicémie (sepsis, septicemia). (various references)

German		Sepsis (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia). (various references)

Greek		σηψαιμία των μόσχων (septicaemia of calves), σταφυλοκοκκική σηψαιμία (staphylococcal septicaemia, staphylococcal septicemia), παστερέλλωση (B, C, D, E, haemorrhagic bovine septicaemia, haemorrhagic septicaemia, haemorrhagic septicaemia of cattle, Pasteurella multocida infection, Pasteurella multocida(or Pasteurella septica)serotypes A, pasteurellosis of cattle, septicaemic pasteurellosis), χολέρα των ορνίθων (avian pasteurellosis, cholera gallinarium, fowl cholera, haemorrhagic septicaemia of the fowl, pasteurellosis of the fowl). (various references)

Hungarian		vérmérgezés (blood poisoning, sepsis, septic infection, septicemia). (various references)

Italian		setticemia (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia). (various references)

Korean		패혈증 (septicemia). (various references)

Manx		septaseema. (various references)

Pig Latin		epticaemiasay

Portuguese		septicemia (blood plague, blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia, septicemic plague, siderating plague). (various references)

Romanian		septicemie (blood poisoning, septic poisoning). (various references)

Russian		сепсис (sepsis, septicemia), заражение крови (blood poisoning, blood-poisoning, sepsis, toxaemia). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		septikemija, sepsa (sepsis). (various references)

Spanish		septicemia (blood poisoning, sepsis, septicemia). (various references)

Swedish		sepsis (sepsis), blodförgiftning (blood poisoning, sepsis, toxaemia, toxemia). (various references)

Turkish		septisemi (sepsis, septemia, septicemia), kan zehirlenmesi (blood poisoning, pyaemia, sepsis, septemia, septicemia, toxaemia, toxemia). (various references)

Ukranian		сепсис (sepsis, septicemia). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự nhiễm trùng máu (septicemia), sự nhiễm khuẩn m� u (septicemia). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-i-m-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: septicemia.
	-2 letters: emaciates, epistemic.
	-3 letters: campiest, campsite, casemate, emaciate, meticais, speciate.
	-4 letters: amesace, amities, aseptic, camisia, caseate, emetics, empties, episcia, impacts, impaste, itemise, metepas, miscite, pastime, pectase, pieties, pietism, sematic, septime, spicate.
	-5 letters: amices, apices, apiece, aspect, camisa, camise, capias, capita, casita, cities, emetic, epacts, escape, etapes, iciest, impact, mastic, metepa, misact, misate, miseat, pastie.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-i-m-p-s-t"
	+5 letters: cinematographies.
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