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BLOOD POISONING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection
Synonyms:
blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("blood poisoning" is a kind of...):
sepsis (the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues)
blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood poisoning"):
childbed fever; puerperal fever (serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon)
pyaemia; pyemia (septicemia caused by pus-forming bacteria being released from an abscess)
toxaemia; toxemia (blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood)
fowl cholera (an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia)
shipping fever; shipping pneumonia (a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market))
