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blood poisoning or poisoning of other tissues by microorganisms or their toxins- Sepsis is usually caused by bacteria, but can also be caused by viruses and fungi.
- In this light, we can regard the gulag as a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- He can smell it, almost taste it that dense, heavy smell of damp stone, damp wool, halitosis, and septic human flesh.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- I prefer the top of his sleeping bag, which is less septic.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- His breath was moist and smelled like a septic tank.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- 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."Terry Pratchett -- Nation
- "How else should I be doing," Malcolm said, "with a compound fracture of the leg that is likely septic and beginning to smell rather, ah, pungent?Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- But what had amused me then turned septic on the air now.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- "Her placenta hadn't come out after the birth and she was in danger of dying from septic shock.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
- The toilet wasn't hooked up to any sewer or septic system.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- The immediate cause of death may be eclampsia, hemorrhage, malaria, abortion complications, obstructed labor or sepsis.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- There's a hole dug out back for a septic tank.Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- With sewage systems and septic tanks.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- "Sepsis," Dumbo muttered.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- They discovered he had devised his own way of hooking up the septic system.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- By the way, on the subject of sepsis I see what you mean.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- Of course, no one said anything, their boss being touchier than a septic bum boil.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- "It ... swelled up and got septic," I say after a pause.Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
- "He's probably septic," Ambiades warned, teasing me in a tone just a little more condescending than the one he used on Sophos.Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
- After she lost all that blood, risk of sepsis, not to speak of psychological shock!Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
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