sepsis

Significado (Inglés)

A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.

Conceptos

sepsis

septicemia

Sinónimos

septicemia

septicaemia

putrefaction

putridity

toxaemia

toxemia

sapraemia

blood poisoning

sapremia

decay

Traducciones

sepsi

septicémie

sepsis

Sepsis

sepse

Blutvergiftung

sepsis

σήψη

septisemi

sépsis

septicemia

sepsis

setticemia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsɛpsɪs/

Etimología (Inglés)

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”).