bacteriemia

What does bacteriemia mean?

bacteriemia means "transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood".

How many syllables are in bacteriemia?

bacteriemia has 5 syllables and divides as bac-te-ri-e-mia under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bacteriemia?

Close synonyms include bacteremia, bacteriaemia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bacteriemia a common word?

bacteriemia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bacteriemia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.