Sample Sentences forsepsis (auto-selected)
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Sepsis is usually caused by bacteria, but it can also be caused by viruses and fungi.sepsis = blood poisoning or poisoning of other tissues by microorganisms or their toxins
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I'd probably killed myself with sepsis because of some stupid childhood ritual that didn't even prove what I wanted it to prove, because what I wanted to know was unknowable, because there was no way to be sure about anything.† (source)
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Miraculously, it appeared as though he had come through surgery in an unsterile environment with no sepsis.† (source)
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"Sepsis," Dumbo muttered.† (source)
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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)
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I hang suspended, until a septic truth bleeds toward clarity.† (source)
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The toilet wasn't hooked up to any sewer or septic system.† (source)
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After she lost all that blood, risk of sepsis, not to speak of psychological shock!† (source)
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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.
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His leg had grown worse, had grown septic from an injury suffered in a public house one night.† (source)
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By the way, on the subject of sepsis I see what you mean.† (source)
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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)
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I doubted whether they would tear up the ground to investigate the septic system.† (source)
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The immediate cause of death may be eclampsia, hemorrhage, malaria, abortion complications, obstructed labor or sepsis.† (source)
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She'd always loved the story of Pasteur's discovery of microbes, or Lister's experiments with antisepsis.† (source)
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The rolling hills, once perfect lakes of snow, were dotted with mangled trucks and rusted septic tanks.† (source)
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