How to use pyaemia in a sentence
Abscess in the spleen occasionally occurs, usually in association with infective endocarditis or with general pyaemia.
Such terrible scourges as pyaemia and hospital gangrene were rife in all of them.
Victorian Worthies | George Henry BloreAcute inflammatory conditions may be secondary to zymotic diseases such as diphtheria, pyaemia, typhus fever and others.
In general pyaemia multiple small abscesses may occur in the liver.
An' what 'ud they be, then, if it wasn't the bacillus of pyaemia?
Hilda Wade | Grant Allen
British Dictionary definitions for pyaemia
pyaemia
pyemia
/ (paɪˈiːmɪə) /
noun
blood poisoning characterized by pus-forming microorganisms in the blood
Origin of pyaemia
1C19: from New Latin, from Greek puon pus + haima blood
Derived forms of pyaemia
- pyaemic or pyemic, adjective
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