- a variation of pyemia.
pyaemia
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pyaemia
C19: from New Latin, from Greek puon pus + haima blood
Example Sentences
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Four major infections were accepted as largely inevitable: septicaemia, erysipelas, gangrene and pyaemia.
From Nature ● Oct. 3, 2017
Referring to pyaemia, or blood- poisoning, he was not content to affirm the disappearance of these formidable maladies from the hospital to which he was attached, but went on to declare their disappearance altogeher.
From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell
I will tell you what was the cause of this hospital pyaemia being in that large private house.
From Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale
Such terrible scourges as pyaemia and hospital gangrene were rife in all of them.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
Various wound infections, including septicaemia, pyaemia, acute abscesses, ulcers, erysipelas, etc., are produced by a few forms of micrococci, resembling each other in many points but differing slightly.
From The Story of Germ Life by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
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