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septicaemia

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See also: septicæmia

English

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Noun

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septicaemia (countable and uncountable, plural septicaemias)

  1. Alternative spelling of septicemia

Latin

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Etymology

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New Latin, from sēpticus (putrifying), from Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, septic) + αἷμα (haîma, blood).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sēpticaemia f (genitive sēpticaemiae); first declension

  1. septicemia
    • 1904, F. J. Poynton & W. V. Shaw, "On the relation of Staphylococcus pyogenes aueus to rheumatic fever", Transactions of the Pathological Society of London, 55: 127-128
      Quotiens autem injectio staphylococci aurei injectionem diplococci rheumatici subsequebatur, totiens evenit morbus quidam pyæmicus, aut septicaemia quae cito mortem attulit.
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Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sēpticaemia sēpticaemiae
genitive sēpticaemiae sēpticaemiārum
dative sēpticaemiae sēpticaemiīs
accusative sēpticaemiam sēpticaemiās
ablative sēpticaemiā sēpticaemiīs
vocative sēpticaemia sēpticaemiae