hemorrhagic septicemia

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   an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection

   Synonymspasteurellosis

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about hemorrhagic septicemia

What does hemorrhagic septicemia mean?

hemorrhagic septicemia means "an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection".

What is another word for hemorrhagic septicemia?

Close synonyms include pasteurellosis. 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 hemorrhagic septicemia a common word?

hemorrhagic septicemia 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.