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The putrefactive destruction of tissues by disease causing bacteria or their toxins. Oral sepsis can provide a local source of infection which may spread to cause systemic disease.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... The breakdown of tissue by putrefying bacteria or...
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A Dictionary of Dentistry (2 ed.)
...sepsis n. The putrefactive destruction of tissues by disease causing bacteria or their toxins. Oral sepsis can provide a local source of infection which may spread to cause systemic ...
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Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
... n. the putrefactive destruction of tissues by disease-causing bacteria or their toxins. Postpartum (or puerperal ) sepsis , characterized by puerperal pyrexia and other signs of serious infection (septic shock ), occurs within six weeks of childbirth. Postpartum sepsis caused by group A β –haemolytic streptococci is an important cause of maternal death in the...
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A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
... [ sep -sis] n. the putrefactive destruction of tissues by disease-causing bacteria or their toxins. postpartum (or puerperal ) s . sepsis characterized by puerperal pyrexia and other signs of serious infection that occurs within six weeks of...
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World Encyclopedia
... Destruction of body tissue by disease‐causing (pathogenic) bacteria or their toxins. Local or widespread inflammation may occur, possibly followed by necrosis, the death of tissue. Treatment is with antibiotics...
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A Dictionary of Biology (8 ed.)
...sepsis Infection of the soft tissues or blood by pathogenic microorganisms, arising usually after these have entered the body through a skin wound. It results in destruction of the tissues by the pathogens or their toxins...
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A Dictionary of Public Health (2 ed.)
...puerperal sepsis A formerly lethal septicemia that occurs when infection is introduced into the uterus by the birth attendant. It was epidemic from the 18th to the late 19th century in western Europe and the United States, when childbirth was conducted by obstetricians who did not wash their hands before performing obstetric maneuvers. Oliver Wendell Holmes ( 1809–94 ), in Boston, and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis ( 1818–1865 ), in Vienna, independently discovered that it could be prevented by hand-washing. Semmelweis published a detailed statistical analysis...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... putrefaction. XIX. — modL. — Gr. sēpsis , f. sḗpein rot, putrefy. So septic XVII. — L. — Gr. sēptikǒs...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • glacis , Onassis • abscess • anaphylaxis , axis, praxis, taxis • Chalcis • Jancis • synapsis • catharsis • Frances , Francis • thesis • Alexis • amanuensis • prolepsis , sepsis, syllepsis • basis , oasis, stasis • amniocentesis , anamnesis, ascesis, catechesis, diesis, exegesis, mimesis, prosthesis, psychokinesis, telekinesis • ellipsis , paralipsis • Lachesis • analysis , catalysis, dialysis, paralysis, psychoanalysis • electrolysis • nemesis • genesis , parthenogenesis, pathogenesis • diaeresis ( US dieresis) • metathesis • ...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
... noun L19 Greek ( sēpsis , from sēpein to make rotten). Medicine The state of being septic; blood poisoning, especially through infection of a...
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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
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