sepsis

coined by Hippocrates From Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis, “putrefaction”), from σήπειν (sḗpein, “to make rotten”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard; also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛpsɪs/

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sepsis (countable and uncountable, plural sepses)

1. (pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.
   • 1994, Martin Amis, New Yorker, reprinted in The Rub of Time (NY: Knopf, 2017), pp. 213-14:

     Imagine the sepsis of helpless loathing [Jimmy Connors] must have inspired in his opponents during his "great runs" at the US Open.

• “sepsis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “sepsis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “sepsis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Learned borrowing from Latin sepsis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsepsis/, [ˈs̠e̞ps̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -epsis
• Syllabification^(key): sep‧sis

sepsis

1. sepsis

• “sepsis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsebsis/ [ˈseβ̞.sis]
• Rhymes: -ebsis
• Syllabification: sep‧sis

sepsis f (plural sepsis)

1. (pathology) sepsis

• “sepsis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

sepsis c

1. (pathology) sepsis

   Synonym: blodförgiftning

• sepsis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sepsis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH