sepsis
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsɛpsɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]sepsis (countable and uncountable, plural sepses)
- (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.
- 1994, Martin Amis, New Yorker, reprinted in The Rub of Time (NY: Knopf, 2017), pp. 213-14:
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed
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Further reading
[edit]- “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.
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin sepsis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sepsis
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sepsis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sepsis | sepsikset | |
genitive | sepsiksen | sepsisten sepsiksien | |
partitive | sepsistä | sepsiksiä | |
illative | sepsikseen | sepsiksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sepsis | sepsikset | |
accusative | nom. | sepsis | sepsikset |
gen. | sepsiksen | ||
genitive | sepsiksen | sepsisten sepsiksien | |
partitive | sepsistä | sepsiksiä | |
inessive | sepsiksessä | sepsiksissä | |
elative | sepsiksestä | sepsiksistä | |
illative | sepsikseen | sepsiksiin | |
adessive | sepsiksellä | sepsiksillä | |
ablative | sepsikseltä | sepsiksiltä | |
allative | sepsikselle | sepsiksille | |
essive | sepsiksenä | sepsiksinä | |
translative | sepsikseksi | sepsiksiksi | |
abessive | sepsiksettä | sepsiksittä | |
instructive | — | sepsiksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “sepsis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (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
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sepsis f (plural sepsis)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sepsis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]sepsis c
- (pathology) sepsis
- Synonym: blodförgiftning
Declension
[edit]Declension of sepsis
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | sepsis | sepsis |
definite | sepsisen | sepsisens | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
References
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- en:Pathology
- Finnish terms borrowed from Latin
- Finnish learned borrowings from Latin
- Finnish terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Finnish/epsis
- Rhymes:Finnish/epsis/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
- Spanish terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ebsis
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- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish countable nouns
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- es:Pathology
- Swedish lemmas
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- sv:Pathology