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Sepsis   Listen
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Sepsis  n.  (Med.) The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.






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"Sepsis" Quotes from Famous Books



... as sequestra, but the ends of the fragments themselves may undergo necrosis; involving as this does the dense cortical bone of the shaft, the dead bone is slow in being separated, and until it is separated and thrown off, no actual repair can take place. The sepsis stimulates the bone-forming tissues and new bone is formed in considerable amount, especially on the surface of the shaft in the vicinity of the fracture; in macerated specimens it presents a porous, crumbling ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles



Words linked to "Sepsis" :   sapremia, infection, blood poisoning



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