septicemia

• septicaemia
• septicæmia

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

septicemia (countable and uncountable, plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever.

   Synonyms: blood poisoning, septic fever

• septicemic

• sepsis
• bacteraemia
• pyemia

• episematic

• septicémia

From séptico (“septic”) +‎ -emia.

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: sep‧ti‧ce‧mi‧a

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) septicemia (disease caused by pathogens in the bloodstream)

• septicémico (Portugal), septicêmico (Brazil)

• “septicemia” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “septicemia” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “septicemía” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “septicemia” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “septicemia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “septic”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, séptico +‎ -emia.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /sebtiˈθemja/ [seβ̞.t̪iˈθe.mja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sebtiˈsemja/ [seβ̞.t̪iˈse.mja]
• Rhymes: -emja
• Syllabification: sep‧ti‧ce‧mia

septicemia f (plural septicemias)

1. (pathology) septicemia

• “septicemia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014