SEPTICEMIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does septicemic mean? 

• SEPTICEMIC (adjective)
  The adjective SEPTICEMIC has 1 sense:

1. characteristic of septicemia

  Familiarity information: SEPTICEMIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPTICEMIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of septicemia

Context example:

a septicemic temperature curve

Similar:

infected; septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)

Derivation:

septicemia (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)

 Context examples 

In septicemic plague, the infection spreads directly through the bloodstream.

(Plague, NCI Thesaurus)

It is pathogenic in a variety of organisms including domestic swine and humans, causing both cutaneous and septicemic infections and the disease swine erysipelas.

(Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, NCI Thesaurus)

In septicemic plague, bacteria multiply in the blood. It causes fever, chills, shock, and bleeding under the skin or other organs.

(Plague, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

It is manifested as a bubonic, septicemic, or pneumonic plague.

(Plague, NCI Thesaurus)