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