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English
Etymology
coined by Hippocrates From Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis, “putrefaction”), from σήπειν (sḗpein, “to make rotten”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard; also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sepsis (countable and uncountable, plural sepses)
- (pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.
- 1994, Martin Amis, New Yorker, reprinted in The Rub of Time (NY: Knopf, 2017), pp. 213-14:
- Imagine the sepsis of helpless loathing must have inspired in his opponents during his "great runs" at the US Open.
Translations
serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed
- Arabic: تَلَوُّث اَلْدَم m (talawwuṯ al-dam)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: septizemia
- Catalan: sèpsia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 敗血症/败血症 (zh) (bàixiězhèng)
- Czech: sepse (cs) f, otrava krve f
- Dutch: sepsis (nl) f
- Esperanto: sepso, sangoveneniĝo
- Finnish: verenmyrkytys (fi), sepsis (fi)
- French: sepsis (fr) m
- German: Sepsis (de) f, Blutvergiftung (de) f, Septikämie f
- Greek: σήψη (el) f (sípsi)
- Hebrew: אלח דם m
- Hungarian: szepszis (hu), vérmérgezés (hu)
- Icelandic: graftarsótt f, (septicemia) blóðsýking f, (septicemia) blóðeitrun (is) f
- Italian: sepsi (it)
- Japanese: 敗血症 (はいけつしょう, haiketsushō)
- Kazakh: сепсис (sepsis)
- Korean: 패혈증(敗血症) (ko) (paehyeoljeung)
- Portuguese: sepse f, sépsis f
- Romanian: sepsie f
- Russian: се́псис (ru) m (sɛ́psis), зараже́ние кро́ви n (zaražénije króvi), о́бщее зараже́ние n (óbščeje zaražénije)
- Slovak: sepsa (sk) f
- Spanish: sepsis (es) f
- Swedish: sepsis (sv), blodförgiftning (sv) c
- Thai: ภาวะพิษเหตุติดเชื้อ (paa-wá-pít-hèet-dtìt-chʉ́ʉa)
- Turkish: sepsis
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Further reading
- “sepsis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sepsis”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “sepsis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sepsis.
Pronunciation
Noun
sepsis
- sepsis
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis).
Pronunciation
Noun
sepsis f (plural sepsis)
- (pathology) sepsis
Further reading
Swedish
Noun
sepsis c
- (pathology) sepsis
- Synonym: blodförgiftning
Declension
Declension of sepsis
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Definite
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Nominative
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sepsis
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sepsisen
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Genitive
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sepsis
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sepsisens
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