sepsis

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

sepsi

setticemia

sinonimi

septicemia

septicaemia

putrefaction

putridity

toxaemia

toxemia

sapraemia

blood poisoning

sapremia

decay

Traduzioni

septicémie

sepsis

Sepsis

sepsis

sepse

septicemia

Blutvergiftung

σήψη

septisemi

sepsis

sépsis

septicemia

septikemie

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsɛpsɪs/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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”).