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blood poisoning Definition

blood poisoning

noun

septicemia

blood poisoning Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • cause: His death was due to blood poisoning caused by a nail in his cricket boot.
  • develop: Hannah had to have both of her legs and arms amputated after developing blood poisoning having caught meningitis when she was three years old.
  • have: I was told that I had very serious blood poisoning and had a sample taken every other day.
  • get: When the farmer was 10, his father got blood poisoning from an injury and died after a harrowing illness.

Modifies a noun

  • form: Septicaemia is the blood poisoning form of the disease.

Noun used with modifier

  • meningitis: Someone with meningococcal disease ( meningitis and/or blood poisoning ) is likely to become very unwell.