单词 | pyaemia |
释义 | pyaemiapyemian. Medicine. Originally: the presence of pus in the blood (now historical). Later: septicaemia; spec. the presence or dissemination of emboli containing pyogenic bacteria within blood vessels (septic embolization). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > blood poisoning defoedation1583 blood poisoning1844 septicaemia1844 pyaemia1850 septaemia1851 toxaemia1860 ichorrhaemia1867 sapraemia1879 autotoxaemia1890 stercoraemia1890 toxanaemia1891 nosotoxicosis1892 toxinaemia1900 azotaemia1961 1850 Lancet 15 June 722/1 Cases like this are well calculated to test M. Sédillot's opinions on pyæmia. 1861 J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. (ed. 3) i. 7 Tendency to erysipelas, pyemia, and low and diffuse inflammations generally. 1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 85 As the name denotes, pyaemia originally was supposed to be due to the entrance of pus into the blood. The disease, however, is no longer attributed to the direct absorption, by the blood, of pus-corpuscles. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) viii. 98 In pyogenic infections a suppurative phlebitis with thrombosis may develop in one of the local vessels; on the breaking down of the thrombus infective particles are disseminated in the blood-stream and multiple abscesses form in different tissues; this condition is termed pyæmia. 1973 J. G. Farrell Siege of Krishnapur xxi. 243 There was a danger that the blood would become poisoned by pus or by some other morbid agent which would render death by pyaemia inevitable. 1993 Amer. Jrnl. Gastroenterol. 88 1452 Our report suggests that the lesion in this patient may have resulted from chronic portal pyemia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1850 |
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