Synonyms for sepsis
ˈsɛp sɪssep·sis

Princeton's WordNet

1. sepsisnoun

   the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues

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1. • Infection

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1. List of paraphrases for "sepsis":

   septicemia, septicaemia, bacteremia

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1. Segundo Barrio:

   She had all the signs and symptoms of early sepsis.

2. Damion Corrigan:

   It's not just saving lives, a lot of people who survive sepsis suffer life changing effects, including limb loss, kidney failure and post-traumatic stress disorder, the test could stop a lot of suffering.

3. British Prime Minister David Cameron:

   In too many cases antibiotics have stopped working. That means people are dying of simple infections or conditions like TB (tuberculosis), tetanus, sepsis, infections that should not mean a death sentence, if we do nothing about this there will be a cumulative hit to the world economy of $100 trillion and it is potentially the end of modern medicine as we know it.

4. Jodie Thomas:

   I drove her straight to the hospital, she was shaking and twitching – it was horrible to see my little girl like that, they said it was sepsis and thought they would have to operate.

5. Mike Super:

   The current standard of therapy is to give antibiotics and fluids. But what we are talking about here is treatment for sepsis and that is what is missing.