NOUN
- invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection
How To Use blood poisoning In A Sentence
- The bacterium causes urinary infections but can also lead to blood poisoning. Times, Sunday Times
- Some 1,446 died suffering with pressure ulcers, otherwise know as bedsores, while 4,866 died with septicaemia, or blood poisoning. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- The most common forms of the bug were now strain C of the bacterial meningococcal meningitis and its blood poisoning relative, septicaemia.
- The disease eventually results in septicemia (blood poisoning), and the mortality is high. Think Progress » VIDEO: Rice Calls Idea That Iraq War Contributed To Regional Instability ‘Grotesque’
- Meningococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes either meningitis - an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord - or septicaemia, which is blood poisoning. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
- Soon that nagging pain in one toe becomes blood poisoning. Christianity Today
- If it enters the bloodstream or lungs of vulnerable hospital patients it can be fatal, because it causes blood poisoning. The Sun
- He died in hospital from blood poisoning, which led to organ failure. Times, Sunday Times
- Infection can slow recovery or cause diseases such as blood poisoning or bronchopneumonia a pneumonia involving inflammation of the lungs.
- In 1878, he identified the germ that caused blood poisoning and septicaemia.