septicemia

English

Alternative forms

• septicaemia
• septicæmia

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin sēpticaemia, from Latin sēpticus + -aemia.

Noun

septicemia (countable and uncountable, plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever.

   Synonyms: blood poisoning, septic fever

Derived terms

• septicemic

Translations

disease caused by pathogens in the blood

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: се́псис m (sépsis)
• Catalan: septicèmia (dated), sèpsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敗血病／败血病 (zh) (bàixuèbìng), 敗血症／败血症 (zh) (bàixuèzhèng)

• Czech: sepse (cs) f
• Danish: sepsis c
• Dutch: bloedvergiftiging (nl) f
• Faroese: blóðeitran f
• Finnish: verenmyrkytys (fi), septikemia
• French: septicémie (fr) f
• German: Blutvergiftung (de) f, Sepsis (de) f
• Icelandic: blóðeitrun (is) f, blóðsýking f
• Italian: setticemia (it) f
• Maori: mate ero, mate toto ero
• Navajo: kʼaasdá atsʼíístah ahisheegizh
• Portuguese: septicemia (pt) f
• Romanian: septicemie (ro) f
• Russian: септицеми́я (ru) f (sɛpticemíja), се́псис (ru) m (sɛ́psis), зараже́ние кро́ви f (zaražénije króvi)
• Slovak: sepsa (sk) f
• Spanish: septicemia (es) f
• Welsh: gwenwyn gwaed m

See also

• sepsis
• bacteraemia
• pyemia

Anagrams

• episematic

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• septicémia

Etymology

From séptico (“septic”) +‎ -emia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sep.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.ɐ/, /se.pi.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sep.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.ɐ/, /se.pi.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sep.t͡ʃi.seˈmi.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɛ.pti.sɨˈmi.ɐ/, (proscribed) /sɛ.ptiˈsɛ.mjɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: sep‧ti‧ce‧mi‧a

Noun

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) septicemia (disease caused by pathogens in the bloodstream)

Derived terms

• septicémico (Portugal), septicêmico (Brazil)

Further reading

• “septicemia”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “septicemia”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “septicemía” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “septicemia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “septicemia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “septic”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, séptico +‎ -emia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /sebtiˈθemja/ [seβ̞.t̪iˈθe.mja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sebtiˈsemja/ [seβ̞.t̪iˈse.mja]
• Rhymes: -emja
• Syllabification: sep‧ti‧ce‧mia

Noun

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) septicemia

Derived terms

• septicémico

 

Further reading

• “septicemia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28