sepsis

Meaning

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

Synonyms

septicemia

septicaemia

putrefaction

putridity

toxaemia

toxemia

sapraemia

blood poisoning

sapremia

decay

Translations

sepsi

septicémie

sepsis

Sepsis

sepsis

sepse

septicemia

Blutvergiftung

septisemi

σήψη

sepsis

sépsis

septicemia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛpsɪs/

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”).