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septicemia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English

Syllables
sep-ticemia
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterized by chills and fever.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: sēpticaemia, sēpticus

Usage

Inflected Forms

septicemias (plural) septicaemia (alternative) septicæmia (alternative)

Derived Forms

colisepticemia septicemic

Frequently Paired Words

sepsis bacteraemia pyemia

Synonyms

blood poisoning septic fever septicaemia

Questions

What does septicemia mean?
A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterized by chills and fever.
Where does septicemia come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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