Sepsis

/ˈsɛpsɪs/

Synonyms for "sepsis" (7 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
blood infectionblood poisoning

Strong matches (2)

Noun(1 words)
newborn sepsis

Related words (3)

Noun(2 words)
septicemiasystemic inflammatory response

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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More general

4 entries
clinical syndromediseaseinfectionmedical condition

More specific

9 entries
early onset neonatal sepsisfungal septicemiagram negative sepsisgram negative septicemialate onset neonatal sepsisneonatal sepsispediatric sepsissepsis syndromeseptic shock

Collocations

7 entries
gram negative sepsisneonatal sepsispediatric sepsissepsis guidelinessepsis mortalitysepsis treatmentseptic shock

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The term sepsis as now used in clinical surgery no longer retains its original meaning as synonymous with “putrefaction,” but is employed to denote all conditions in which bacterial infection has taken place, and more particularly those in which pyogenic bacteria are present.

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She contracted a bacterial infection called Clostridium difficile which turned into sepsis.

Source: tatoeba (8225910)

Yanni died of sepsis.

Source: tatoeba (8806834)

Tom may have sepsis.

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