blood poisoning

1. 1.

   invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection

   Synonymssepticemiasepticaemia

   Broadersepsisblood disease

   Narrowerpuerperal feverpyemiatoxemiafowl cholerashipping fever

Questions about blood poisoning

What does blood poisoning mean?

blood poisoning means "invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection".

What is another word for blood poisoning?

Close synonyms include septicemia, septicaemia. 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 blood poisoning a common word?

blood poisoning 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.