Definition of "septicemic" [septicemic]

• Alternative spelling of septicaemic. (adjective)

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• "There is nothing more easy to superpose—as it were-two distinct diseases and to produce what might be called a septicemic purulent infection, or a purulent septicemia."
• "The pneumonic and septicemic were less seen than the bubonic."
• "The three types of plague identified as such are: septicemic, bubonic and pneumonic."