English noun: septicaemia | |||
1. | septicaemia (state) invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection | ||
Synonyms | blood poisoning, septicemia | ||
Broader (hypernym) | blood disease, blood disorder, sepsis | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | childbed fever, fowl cholera, puerperal fever, pyaemia, pyemia, shipping fever, shipping pneumonia, toxaemia, toxemia | ||