pyaemia
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pyaemia
C19: from New Latin, from Greek puon pus + haima blood
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Four major infections were accepted as largely inevitable: septicaemia, erysipelas, gangrene and pyaemia.
From Nature ● Oct. 3, 2017
The patients came from streets which often were foul with dirt, smoke, and disease, and were admitted to gloomy airless wards, where pyaemia or gangrene were firmly established.
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
Acute inflammatory conditions may be secondary to zymotic diseases such as diphtheria, pyaemia, typhus fever and others.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
In general pyaemia multiple small abscesses may occur in the liver.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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