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Septicaemia

noun
1.
Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection.  Synonyms: blood poisoning, septicemia.






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... of them! But the older, or Strepto, cousin is by far the more dangerous character and desperate individual, giving rise to and being concerned in nearly all the civilized and dangerous wound-fevers—septicaemia, erysipelas, etc. Staphylococcus is a milder and less harmful individual, seldom going farther than to produce the milder forms of festering, discharging, refusing to heal, pustules, etc. He is not to be given a yard of leeway, however, ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson



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