different between pyaemia vs septicaemia

English

Alternative forms

• pyæmia, pyemia (American), pyœmia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (púon, “pus”) + ???? (haîma, “blood”).

Noun

pyaemia (countable and uncountable, plural pyaemias)

1. (pathology) A type of septicemia caused usually by the presence of Staphylococcus bacteria in the bloodstream; characterised by metastatic abscesses and other symptoms associated with septicemia.

Derived terms

• pyaemic

Translations

English

Noun

septicaemia (countable and uncountable, plural septicaemias)

1. Alternative spelling of septicemia

Latin

Etymology

New Latin, from s?pticus (“putrifying”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (s?ptikós, “septic”) + ???? (haîma, “blood”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se?p.ti?kae?.mi.a/, [s?e?pt???käe?miä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sep.ti?t??e.mi.a/, [s?pt?i?t????mi?]

Noun

s?pticaemia f (genitive s?pticaemiae); first declension

1. septicemia
   • 1904, F. J. Poynton & W. V. Shaw, "On the relation of Staphylococcus pyogenes aueus to rheumatic fever", Transactions of the Pathological Society of London, 55: 127-128

     Quotiens autem injectio staphylococci aurei injectionem diplococci rheumatici subsequebatur, totiens evenit morbus quidam pyæmicus, aut septicaemia quae cito mortem attulit.

Declension

First-declension noun.