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invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection

↑puerperal fever, ↑childbed fever, ↑pyemia, ↑pyaemia, ↑toxemia, ↑toxaemia, ↑fowl cholera, ↑shipping fever, ↑shipping pneumonia

noun [noncount]

medical : a serious condition in which harmful bacteria spread throughout a person's blood

ˈblood poisoning [blood poisoning] noun

an illness where the blood becomes infected with harmful bacteria