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bacteriemia

bacteriemia is the alternative form of bacteraemia.

Meaning of bacteraemia

Noun

bacteraemia (countable and uncountable, plural bacteraemias)

  1. The medical condition of having bacteria in the bloodstream.

Forms of bacteriemia

pluralbacteriemias

Origin of bacteriemia

From bacteri- + -emia.

Questions about bacteriemia

What is bacteriemia the alternative form of?
Bacteriemia is the alternative form of bacteraemia.

Words near bacteriemia in the dictionary

  1. bactericides
  2. bactericidin
  3. bactericidins
  4. bacterid
  5. bacterids
  6. bacteriemia
  7. bacteriemias
  8. bacteriemic
  9. bacterin
  10. bacterins
  11. bacterio-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bacteriemia (page history and authors); bacteraemia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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