(n.) A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The late complications were one permanent dislocation of the patella and one bipolar septic loosening with septic pyaemia which needed an arthrodesis and required 79,290 International Units of factor VIII, 72 units of packed cells and 28 bottles of fresh plasma.
(2) The patients presented with a subcutaneous abscess complicated by pyaemia, extensive lung involvement and septicaemic shock.
(3) Tick pyaemia was produced experimentally for the first time using Ixodes ricinus as a mechanical vector of S. aureus.
(4) Its unusual features included marked personal and familial dysreaction, sudden onset, bronchopulmonitis with distinct eosinophilia and antibiotic- and cortisone-resistant pericarditis, and a terminal picture of generalised septico-pyaemia.
(5) Between 1983 and 1987, 1757 from a total of 4,899,731 pigs were condemned by meat inspectors for pyaemia, accounting for 0.036% of the total condemnations.
(6) Though the use of pyrethroids did not prevent the lambs from being infected with tick-borne fever (TBF), the incidence of lambs with lameness (tick pyaemia) or lambs suddenly found dead (Pasteurella haemolytica septicaemia), which often are seen in association with TBF, was reduced.
(7) Pyaemia is by far the most important cause of condemnation in pigs slaughtered in Singapore abattoirs.
(8) The main reason for rejection of carcases was pyaemia (30.3%).
(9) In the presence of pyaemia or following an operation, with high fever, tenderness on palpation, leucocytosis and rapid development of the illness, an abscess may be suspected.
(10) The incidence of pyaemia decreased after 1960, whereas that of septicaemia increased significantly.
(11) Kidney infections often are only one aspect of more widespread diseases, for example, tick pyaemia or salmonellosis.
Pyemia
Definition:
(n.) See PyAemia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Suppurative arthritis and osteomyelitis due to pyemia were also common findings.
(2) Microflora of pathological biosubstrates from 25 patients aged from 18 to 41 years with criminal abortion complications such as sepsis, septic shock, septicemia, and septic pyemia, peritonitis and endometritis of various severity was studied.
(3) Among them, 59 cases with burn area 15-49% II degrees, III degrees of total body surface, the ratio of incidence of gram negative septicemia and wound pyemia between i-RNA and control group was 1.69%: 22%, p less than 0.01.
(4) Lobar attenuation difference of liver on computed tomography was seen in a case of portal pyemia complicating perforated appendicitis.
(5) Three stages of neurosis-like disorders were noted: (1), acute stress reaction close in its structure to prodromal phase of exogenous psychoses and approximately coinciding with the burn shock; (2), formation and dissolution of psychopathologic syndromes (asthenic, depressive and asthenic-depressive), resembling the so-called "transitional" syndromes coinciding with toxemias and septic pyemias; (3), late psychogenesis (mobilization, pseudoeuphoric and hypochondriac).
(6) Along with the well-known typical manifestations of sepsis, a number of its perculiar features associated with application of modern therapeutic methods are considered: the prevailing form of sepsis is pyemia (81.5%), considerable incidence of sepsis following peritonitis and septic thrombophlebitis developing at sites of prolonged catheterization of veins.
(7) This bacterium is constantly isolated from pulmonary abscesses in foals affected with pyemia.