SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does septicemic plague mean? 

• SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE (noun)
  The noun SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE has 1 sense:

1. an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person

  Familiarity information: SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("septicemic plague" is a kind of...):

pest; pestilence; pestis; plague (a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal)

 Context examples 

In septicemic plague, the infection spreads directly through the bloodstream.

(Plague, NCI Thesaurus)

In septicemic plague, bacteria multiply in the blood. It causes fever, chills, shock, and bleeding under the skin or other organs.

(Plague, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)