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pyemia

[pahy-ee-mee-uh] / paɪˈi mi ə /


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Fayrer operated on 28 patients with 22 recoveries and six deaths, one from shock and five from pyemia The same surgeon collected 193 cases, and found the general mortality to be 18 per cent.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Indeed, the name pyosepticemia, or septicopyemia, is often applied when it is impossible to make a distinction between septicemia and pyemia or where each is equally responsible for the diseased condition.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

The organisms most frequently found in cases of septicemia are, on the whole, the same as those of pyemia, and may be pus cocci, the bacillus coli, or other pus-producing organisms.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

The most important of these in pyemia is a break in continuity of the protective covering, as a wound, which affords an entrance into the tissues for the organisms.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Moist gangrene often spreads and involves deeper tissue, sheaths of tendons and joints producing septic synovitis or septic arthritis leading to pyemia and death.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener




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