septicemia

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There’s also a reference to septicemia, which is writer-director Emerald Fennell’s perhaps too-technical stab at explaining the nonspecific Victorian disease that afflicts one character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Appendicitis, especially with a perforated appendix, is dangerous and can lead to complications including septicemia and peritonitis, the Cleveland Clinic says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

When given orally to mice with drug-resistant septicemia or pneumonia, lolamicin rescued 100% of the mice with septicemia and 70% of the mice with pneumonia, the team reported.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

It's possible environmental stressors, such as heat and lack of food and water, may have led Bisgaard taxon 45 to proliferate and cause the septicemia in the Zimbabwe elephants, says Foggin.

From National Geographic • Dec. 5, 2023

It won’t be tetanus, as they inoculated us, but may be septicemia; I don’t think those pins were very clean.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein