septicemic
Americanadjective
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Two even deadlier variants of the disease eventually emerged during the fourteenth century: pneumonic and septicemic.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
There are different clinical forms of plague, though the most common are bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022
One of the patients, John Tull, developed septicemic plague.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2017
The bacterium that cause plague, Yersinia pestis, can cause several types of potentially fatal illnesses: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague and septicemic plague.
From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2015
Toxē′mic, Tox�′mic, septicemic; Tox′ic, -al, pertaining to poisons, toxicological.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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