septicemia

Noun septicemia has 1 sense

• septicemia(n = noun.state) blood poisoning, septicaemia - invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection;
is a kind of sepsis, blood disease, blood disorder
has particulars: childbed fever, puerperal fever, pyaemia, pyemia, toxaemia, toxemia, fowl cholera, shipping fever, shipping pneumonia
Derived form adjective septicemic₁