Word Meanings - SEPTAEMIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Septicæmia.

SEPTICITY
Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.
SEPTICALLY
In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.
SEPTICIDAL
Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
SEPTIC
Of the seventh degree or order. -- n.
SEPTIC; SEPTICAL
Having power to promote putrefaction.
SEPTICAEMIA
A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and
ANTISEPTIC
A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
ASEPTIC
Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent. -- n.
ANTISEPTICALLY
By means of antiseptics.
ANTISEPTIC; ANTISEPTICAL
Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the