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Blood poisoning   /bləd pˈɔɪzənɪŋ/   Listen
Blood poisoning

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





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"Blood poisoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... resulted in mischief. I accepted the salary since, formally at any rate, it bound me to nothing but a course of inquiries. During a search of two years I established to my satisfaction that vaccination, as for the most part it was then performed, that is from arm to arm, is occasionally the cause of blood poisoning, erysipelas, abscesses, tuberculosis, and other dreadful ailments. These cases I published without drawing from them any deductions whatever, with the result that I found myself summoned to give evidence before the Royal Commission on Vaccination ...
— Doctor Therne • H. Rider Haggard
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Words linked to "Blood poisoning" :   pyaemia, sepsis, septicaemia, toxaemia, puerperal fever, septicemia, shipping fever, childbed fever, blood disease, blood disorder, shipping pneumonia, pyemia, toxemia, fowl cholera


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