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sapræmia

sapræmia is the alternative form of sapraemia.

Meaning of sapraemia

Noun

sapraemia (countable and uncountable, plural sapraemias)

  1. blood poisoning caused by the ingestion/absorption of toxins of putrefactive bacteria.
    • These substances are absorbed into the circulation, and produce the typical symptoms associated with sapraemia.1805, Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, Surgical Pathology and Morbid Anatomy, page 74

Questions about sapræmia

What is sapræmia the alternative form of?
Sapræmia is the alternative form of sapraemia.

Words near sapræmia in the dictionary

  1. saproxylic
  2. saproxylics
  3. saproxylophagous
  4. saproxylophagy
  5. saprozoic
  6. sapræmia
  7. saps
  8. sapsago
  9. sapsagos
  10. sapscull
  11. sapsculls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sapræmia (page history and authors); sapraemia (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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