NOUN
- invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection
How To Use blood poisoning In A Sentence
- Because of risk of blood poisoning, consult your doctor if there is no improvement in 12 hours if a gumboil bursts, or if abscess seems to be enlarging rapidly; antibiotics may be prescribed to prevent infection spreading.
- The tech giant will trawl anonymous confidential data to spot people at risk of kidney disease, blood poisoning and organ failure. The Sun
- Staph can cause skin infection as well as more serious conditions such as pneumonia or sepsis, which is blood poisoning. Staph Bacteria Found in Supermarket Meat
- (e) from dirty dressings, that is, dirty in the sense that they have on them germs which can get into the wound and cause infection or blood poisoning. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
- The bacterium causes urinary infections but can also lead to blood poisoning. Times, Sunday Times
- The most common forms of the bug were now strain C of the bacterial meningococcal meningitis and its blood poisoning relative, septicaemia.
- He had sliced open a mosquito bite while shaving, then rapidly succumbed to blood poisoning and pneumonia. Times, Sunday Times
- An insect bite put him in hospital for four weeks with blood poisoning and septicaemia. The Sun
- Community acquired infections with pneumococci cause pneumonia, blood poisoning, and middle ear disease in over six and a half million cases and 40,000 deaths.
- Soon that nagging pain in one toe becomes blood poisoning. Christianity Today
