blood poisoning
blood poisoning
Definition
blood poisoning
noun
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.
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