sepsis

Systemic infection by pathogenic microorganisms, especially bacteria, that have invaded the bloodstream, usually from a local source. Sepsis is characterized by fever, increased number of white blood cells, increased heart rate, and other signs of widespread infection.

Putridity or putrefaction; decomposition; rot.

Contamination of the organism from ill-conditioned wounds, from abscesses, or certain other local ptomaïne-factories or bacterial seminaries; septicemia. It includes of course similar conditions produced experimentally by inoculation.

[capitalized] In entomology, a genus of dipterous insects of the family Muscidæ.

The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, and a known or suspected infection is present.

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