SEPTICEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does septicemia mean? 

• SEPTICEMIA (noun)
  The noun SEPTICEMIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SEPTICEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPTICEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia

Hypernyms ("septicemia" is a kind of...):

sepsis (the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues)

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "septicemia"):

childbed fever; puerperal fever (serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon)

pyaemia; pyemia (septicemia caused by pus-forming bacteria being released from an abscess)

toxaemia; toxemia (blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood)

fowl cholera (an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia)

shipping fever; shipping pneumonia (a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market))

Derivation:

septicemic (characteristic of septicemia)

 Context examples 

They may be used to help diagnose septicemia (a serious blood infection) and other conditions.

(Blood culture, NCI Dictionary)

This bacteria is found in the normal flora of humans and can cause infections, such as meningitis, septicemia, and pneumonia.

(Acinetobacter lwoffii, NCI Thesaurus)

C. fetus is an opportunistic microbe that causes bacteremia, thrombophlebitis, septicemia, and is a suspected pathogen in immunocompromised patients with gastrointestinal symptoms.

(Campylobacter fetus, NCI Thesaurus)

K. oxytoca is pathogenic, causing urinary tract infections, and is one of the major causes of neonatal bacteremia and septicemia.

(Klebsiella oxytoca, NCI Thesaurus)

C. canimorsus can be transmitted to humans through dog or cat bites where the bacteria causes septicemia and meningitis in humans particularly individuals that have undergone a splenectomy or alcoholism.

(Capnocytophaga canimorsus, NCI Thesaurus)

N. flavescens is commensal in the human oral cavity and can become pathogenic in immunocompromised individuals causing endocarditis, meningitis, and septicemia.

(Neisseria flavescens, NCI Thesaurus)

C. macginleyi is commensal to the ocular conjunctiva, but is also an opportunistic pathogen that causes conjunctivitis, corneal ulcerations, keratitis, endophthalmitis, septicemia and catheter related infections.

(Corynebacterium macginleyi, NCI Thesaurus)

C. lari is associated in recurrent gastroenteritis in children, causes septicemia and enteritis in immunodeficient patients and is commensal in healthy seagulls, birds, mussels and oysters.

(Campylobacter lari, NCI Thesaurus)

C. upsaliensis is a pathogen associated with gastroenteritis, acute watery diarrhea, septicemia, abscesses, inflammatory bowel disease, periodontitis and bacteremia in normal hosts and in those with opportunistic infections in immunocompromised individuals or HIV infected patients.

(Campylobacter upsaliensis, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called septicemia and toxemia.

(Blood poisoning, NCI Dictionary)