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What are the differences between sepsis and septicaemia?
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Word games: Someone who is septic has experienced septicemia. The "emia" means it got there through the blood stream. It means germs or their toxic products have entered the blood and set off a series of reactions that are foreboding and likely to precede death if not reversed.
Answered 11/18/2015
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