sepsis

sepsis

See also: Sepsis and sépsis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis, “putrefaction”), from σήπειν (sḗpein, “to make rotten”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard; also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛpsɪs/

• Audio (southern England)

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Noun

sepsis (countable and uncountable, plural sepses)

1. (pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.
   • 1994, Martin Amis, New Yorker, reprinted in The Rub of Time (NY: Knopf, 2017), pp. 213-14:

     Imagine the sepsis of helpless loathing [Jimmy Connors] must have inspired in his opponents during his "great runs" at the US Open.

Related terms

• antiseptic
• asepsis
• aseptic
• haematosepsis
• septic
• septicemia
• septicity

Translations

serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: sèpsia f Chinese: Mandarin: 敗血症／败血症 (zh) (bàixiězhèng) Czech: sepse (cs) f Dutch: sepsis (nl) f Esperanto: sepso Finnish: verenmyrkytys (fi), sepsis (fi) French: sepsis (fr) m German: Sepsis (de) f, Blutvergiftung (de) f, Septikämie f Hebrew: אלח דם‎ m Hungarian: szepszis (hu), vérmérgezés (hu) Icelandic: graftarsótt f, (septicemia) blóðsýking f, (septicemia) blóðeitrun (is) f Italian: sepsi (it) Japanese: 敗血症 (はいけつしょう, haiketsushō) Kazakh: сепсис (sepsis) Korean: 패혈증(敗血症) (ko) (paehyeoljeung) Portuguese: sepse f, sépsis f Romanian: sepsie f Russian: се́псис (ru) m (sɛ́psis), зараже́ние кро́ви n (zaražénije króvi), о́бщее зараже́ние n (óbščeje zaražénije) Slovak: sepsa (sk) f Spanish: sepsis (es) f Swedish: sepsis (sv), blodförgiftning (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: sepsis

Further reading

• sepsis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sepsis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• sepsis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pisses, speiss

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Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sepsis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsepsis/, [ˈs̠e̞ps̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -epsis
• Syllabification^(key): sep‧sis

Noun

sepsis

1. sepsis

Declension

Inflection of sepsis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		sepsis	sepsikset
genitive		sepsiksen	sepsisten sepsiksien
partitive		sepsistä	sepsiksiä
illative		sepsikseen	sepsiksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		sepsis	sepsikset
accusative	nom.	sepsis	sepsikset
	gen.	sepsiksen
genitive		sepsiksen	sepsisten sepsiksien
partitive		sepsistä	sepsiksiä
inessive		sepsiksessä	sepsiksissä
elative		sepsiksestä	sepsiksistä
illative		sepsikseen	sepsiksiin
adessive		sepsiksellä	sepsiksillä
ablative		sepsikseltä	sepsiksiltä
allative		sepsikselle	sepsiksille
essive		sepsiksenä	sepsiksinä
translative		sepsikseksi	sepsiksiksi
instructive		—	sepsiksin
abessive		sepsiksettä	sepsiksittä
comitative		—	sepsiksineen

Possessive forms of sepsis (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	sepsikseni	sepsiksemme
2nd person	sepsiksesi	sepsiksenne
3rd person	sepsiksensä

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsebsis/ [ˈseβ̞.sis]
• Rhymes: -ebsis
• Syllabification: sep‧sis

Noun

sepsis f (plural sepsis)

1. (pathology) sepsis

Related terms

• septicemia
• séptico

Further reading

• “sepsis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014