Word.ws English Dictionary

sepses

sepses is the plural of sepsis.

Meaning of sepsis

Noun

sepsis (countable and uncountable, plural sepses)

  1. A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.
    • Imagine the sepsis of helpless loathing [Jimmy Connors] must have inspired in his opponents during his "great runs" at the US Open.1994, Martin Amis, New Yorker, reprinted in The Rub of Time (NY: Knopf, 2017), pp. 213-14

Questions about sepses

What is sepses the plural of?
Sepses is the plural of sepsis.

Words near sepses in the dictionary

  1. seprase
  2. seproxetine
  3. SEPs
  4. sEPSC
  5. sEPSCs
  6. sepses
  7. sepsid
  8. sepsids
  9. sepsin
  10. sepsins
  11. sepsis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sepses (page history and authors); sepsis (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sepses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sepses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.