sepsis
noun/ˈsepsɪs/
/ˈsepsɪs/
[uncountable] (medical)- an infection of part of the body in which pus is producedWord Originlate 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek sēpsis, from sēpein ‘make rotten’.
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