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Blood poisoning   /bləd pˈɔɪzənɪŋ/   Listen
Blood poisoning

noun
1.
Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection.  Synonyms: septicaemia, septicemia.





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"Blood poisoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... it's bleeding." Judd displayed some drops of blood on his handkerchief. "I reckon I'd better go to the room and sterilize it, I don't want to get blood poisoning, ...
— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman
... this continues so long as the fever lasts. In some diseases red spots or streaks form in the mucous membrane. This usually indicates an infectious disease of considerable severity, and occurs in blood poisoning, purpura hemorrhagica, hemorrhagic septicemia, and in urticaria. When the liver is deranged and does not operate, or when the red-blood corpuscles are broken down, as in serious cases of influenza, there is a yellowish ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... these electoral activities, King Alexander died—of blood poisoning caused by the bite of a pet monkey. Alive he had neither exercised nor been wanted to exercise any influence over the destinies of his country: he had simply played the part required by the cast in which a whimsical fortune had placed him. His death proved of more importance, inasmuch as it forced ...
— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott


Words linked to "Blood poisoning" :   childbed fever, puerperal fever, fowl cholera, toxaemia, shipping fever, toxemia, shipping pneumonia, pyaemia, blood disease, blood disorder, septicemia, sepsis, pyemia


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