septicemic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
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
The last time someone died of the plague in the United States was in 2013 in New Mexico, a case of the less-common septicemic plague, the same form Gaes is believed to have had.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2015
John is the only person in medical history to survive an advanced stage of septicemic plague.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2012
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