septicemia

septicemia

English

Alternative forms

• septicaemia
• septicæmia

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin septicaemia, from Latin sēpticus + -aemia.

Noun

septicemia (countable and uncountable, plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever.

Synonyms

• blood poisoning
• septic fever

Derived terms

• septicemic

Translations

disease caused by pathogens in the blood

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: отравяне на кръвта (otravjane na krǎvta) Chinese: Mandarin: 敗血病／败血病 (zh) (bàixuèbìng), 敗血症／败血症 (zh) (bàixuèzhèng) Czech: sepse (cs) f Danish: sepsis c Dutch: bloedvergiftiging (nl) Faroese: blóðeitran f Finnish: verenmyrkytys (fi), septikemia French: septicémie (fr) f German: Blutvergiftung (de) f, Sepsis (de) f Icelandic: blóðeitrun (is) f, blóðsýking f Italian: setticemia (it) f Maori: mate ero, mate toto ero Navajo: kʼaasdá atsʼíístah ahisheegizh Portuguese: septicemia (pt) f Romanian: septicemie (ro) f Russian: септицеми́я (ru) f (sɛpticemíja), се́псис (ru) m (sɛ́psis), зараже́ние кро́ви f (zaražénije króvi) Slovak: sepsa (sk) f Spanish: septicemia (es) f

See also

• sepsis
• bacteraemia
• pyemia

Anagrams

• episematic

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Portuguese

Etymology

From séptico (“septic”) +‎ -emia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sep.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.ɐ/, /se.pi.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sep.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.ɐ/, /se.pi.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sep.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.pti.sɨˈmi.ɐ/

Noun

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) septicemia (disease caused by pathogens in the bloodstream)

Derived terms

• septicémico

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Spanish

Noun

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

1. septicemia

Further reading

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