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n. The presence of pathogenic organisms or their toxins in the blood or tissues.

n. The poisoned condition resulting from the presence of pathogens or their toxins, as in septicemia.

n. A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, and a known or suspected infection is present.

n. The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

n. Putridity or putrefaction; decomposition; rot.

n. Contamination of the organism from ill-conditioned wounds, from abscesses, or certain other local ptomaïne-factories or bacterial seminaries; septicemia. It includes of course similar conditions produced experimentally by inoculation.

n. [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of dipterous insects of the family Muscidæ.

n. the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues

"I learned that sepsis is the tenth most common cause of death overall, in North America."

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