septicaemiasepticemian.
/ˌsɛptᵻˈsiːmɪə/, U.S. /ˌsɛptəˈsimiə/ Medicine.
Originally: †the (supposed) condition of having putrid material in the blood (obsolete). In later use: the condition of having bacteria or other pathogens in the blood; an instance of this; a disease characterized by this.
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defoedation1583
blood poisoning1844
septicaemia1844
pyaemia1850
septaemia1851
toxaemia1860
ichorrhaemia1867
sapraemia1879
autotoxaemia1890
stercoraemia1890
toxanaemia1891
nosotoxicosis1892
toxinaemia1900
azotaemia1961
1844 Med. Times 24 Feb. 368/2 The chief cause of enteritis and colo-rectitis, is the alteration of the blood from a septic cause (septicemia), consequently, the etiology of the one is the same as the etiology of the other.
1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 87 The grave general symptoms in certain cases of diphtheria are thought to be due to septicæmia, induced by absorption of the decomposed exudation.
1885 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 12 Feb. 161/2 We may say that there are two sorts of septicæmia: the one is a pathological condition produced by absorption of a putrid chemical poison..; the other is of bacterial origin.
1930 Helena (Montana) Daily Independent 9 Mar. 10/2 Septicemia, which is more commonly known as blood poisoning, cannot be classed without exception as a disease in any insurance policy written in Montana.
1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xiv. 297/1 Important diseases like pasteurellosis, anthrax.., leptospirosis, swine erysipelas, tularaemia and swine fever are examples of septicaemias.
2011 Independent 2 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 19/3 A condition called meningogoccal septicaemia, which often gets called meningitis—but it isn't meningitis, it's blood poisoning, which is much worse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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