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sepsis
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  • She was witness to bizarre sights: three homeless albinos living in Golden Gate Park. a BMW suddenly swallowed up by an ancient septic tank in Woodside, a loose buffalo strolling down Taraval Street.†   (source)
  • The botched surgery, the catastrophic post-op wound infection that turned septic, shut down her kidneys, threw her into liver failure, ate through the new surgical flap and forced the surgeons to slice off not only the flap but yet more of what remained of her left cheek and part of her jawbone as well.†   (source)
  • With sewage systems and septic tanks.†   (source)
  • As Mr Cardinal had indicated, M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper; I cannot recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously, but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these, he feared, were growing septic.†   (source)
  • There's a hole dug out back for a septic tank.†   (source)
  • The well-equipped colonial houses had latrines with septic tanks, but two thirds of the population lived in shanties at the edge of the swamps and relieved themselves in the open air.†   (source)
  • He remembered many other patients who had died, along with their lab data, and remembered vividly three young Haitians who had worked with him on the first health census of Cange: Acéphie, picked off by malaria, Michelet by typhoid, Ti-tap Joseph by puerperal sepsis.†   (source)
  • "He's probably septic," Ambiades warned, teasing me in a tone just a little more condescending than the one he used on Sophos.†   (source)
  • The immediate cause of death may be eclampsia, hemorrhage, malaria, abortion complications, obstructed labor or sepsis.†   (source)
  • "Her placenta hadn't come out after the birth and she was in danger of dying from septic shock.†   (source)
  • He'd always believed his childhood was sterile, but the knowledge Macon and Ruth had given him wrapped his memory of it in septic sheets, heavy with the odor of illness, misery, and unforgiving hearts.†   (source)
  • In this light, we can regard the gulag as a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.†   (source)
  • "It … swelled up and got septic," I say after a pause.†   (source)
  • I didn't get to know her well till we were interns in the septic ward.†   (source)
  • Benson and Tricket, Albert the dentist, all eight members of the town council, including Tully and Jed, the mayor and the staff from the Chamber of Commerce, the entire school board, all nine county commissioners, the volunteers from the Historical Society, three accountants, the entire crew from Herbs, the bartender from Lookilu, the barber, and even Toby, who emptied septic tanks for a living but looked remarkably spiffy nonetheless.†   (source)
  • His breath was moist and smelled like a septic tank.†   (source)
  • They discovered he had devised his own way of hooking up the septic system.†   (source)
  • It had not been a good night for Arthur Septimus Polegrave, who would have been known to his friends, if he'd had any friends, as "Septic."†   (source)
  • My momma didn't have any, Mark didn't have any, and Sam made his, but I could fall face first in a septic tank and come out smelling like a rose of Sharon.†   (source)
  • No septic duty for Rowan's hero.†   (source)
  • Because of the way they miss the vital part and yet make convincingly bloody gouges, you'd think that they were surgeons, but they're not as clever as they think, and a third of them die of sepsis.†   (source)
  • We have flush toilets and a septic tank, so I feel pretty secure about not giving it to anyone or anything else.†   (source)
  • Sepsis was just around the corner.†   (source)
  • By the way, on the subject of sepsis I see what you mean.†   (source)
  • Everything septic.†   (source)
  • It was not a green SS manual but, rather, a slate-blue Army quartermaster's manual with a title that all but engulfed the paper cover: Improved Methods of Measuring and Predicting Septic Tank Percolation Under Unfavorable Conditions of Soil and Climate.†   (source)
  • Blacks who have gone through the civil rights struggle have met a hundred white boys and girls who would dive headfirst into a septic tank to prove their liberation from the sins of their fathers.†   (source)
  • And there was considerable pain while the wound healed under the unusually septic conditions in the hospitals of that day.†   (source)
  • After she lost all that blood, risk of sepsis, not to speak of psychological shock!†   (source)
  • We did our summons after dark, at a twenty-foot-long pit in front of the septic tank.†   (source)
  • I prefer the top of his sleeping bag, which is less septic.†   (source)
  • 'Septic doody' … that's a good one, Bel!†   (source)
  • He can smell it, almost taste it that dense, heavy smell of damp stone, damp wool, halitosis, and septic human flesh.†   (source)
  • I ran water down the sink until I was sure the diluted traces of juice had gone into the septic tank.†   (source)
  • I would not have wanted to visit the Keelings—or the Gibsons, or the Ormsbys—on their island before the septic system was installed; but that period of unlighted encounters with spiders in outhouses, and various late-night frights in the privy-world, is another favorite topic of discussion among the families who share the island each summer.†   (source)
  • Her form shivered and the ghosts disappeared, leaving us alone with a pit, a Happy Flush septic tank, and a cold full moon.†   (source)
  • "Sepsis," Dumbo muttered.†   (source)
  • Miraculously, it appeared as though he had come through surgery in an unsterile environment with no sepsis.†   (source)
  • But the one I wanted to be just like for the longest time was the one who beat me up every other Thursday, who chased me around and around the house with a slingshot loaded with chinaberries, who lied and told me that a sunk-in septic tank outside the house was really an unmarked grave, who rigged up a trapeze in the barn and let me go first, to test the ropes, and who hid with me under that bed in that big, hateful house, and, as the tears rolled down my face, put his arm around my…†   (source)
  • The most advanced medicine in the world, a shot that would keep a belly-wound from becoming septic and increase healing rates four-fold was going for ten dollars a case.†   (source)
  • I met Hema in the septic ward at Government General Hospital in India, in Madras, and that brought me to this continent.†   (source)
  • Anecdotal evidence in Bangladesh and other countries suggests that loosening controls over antibiotics and encouraging women to take them postpartum will reduce death from sepsis.†   (source)
  • The hospital's old septic tank was located here, deep underground, and for years it had overflowed before it was taken out of use.†   (source)
  • If she closed the skin now, she would be sealing infectious agents into the body, ensuring a case of sepsis and an agonizingly slow death.†   (source)
  • For a moment I saw the world through his eyes, his intellect, his sweeping vision that took in Hippocrates, Pavlov, Freud, and Marie Curie, the discovery of streptomycin and penicillin, Landsteiner's blood groups; a vision that recalled the septic ward where he wooed Hema, and Theater 3 where he was the reluctant surgeon; a vision that recapitulated our birth and looked to the future, looked past his life to the end of mine and beyond.†   (source)
  • In spite of everything they might do sepsis was almost inevitable, but now it was the shock and the hemorrhage he couldn't lick.†   (source)
  • But what had amused me then turned septic on the air now.†   (source)
  • The only flaw was that the Glen Oriole sewers had insufficient outlet, so that waste remained in them, not very agreeably, while the Avonlea cesspool was a Waring septic tank.†   (source)
  • Sondelius's wild flaxen hair was almost gray, but he had the same bull shoulders, the same wide brow, and the same tornado of plans to make the world aseptic, without neglecting to enjoy a few of the septic things before they should pass away.†   (source)
  • She'd always loved the story of Pasteur's discovery of microbes, or Lister's experiments with antisepsis.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antisepsis means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • Making do with the crudest of antisepsis, with one scalpel stroke he exposed the greater saphenous vein where it ran just inside Sister Anjali's ankle.†   (source)
  • Antisepsis?†   (source)
  • …benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner…†   (source)
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