Definition of bacteraemia in English:
bacteraemia
(US bacteremia)
noun ˌbaktəˈriːmɪəˌbæktəˈrimiə
mass nounMedicine The presence of bacteria in the blood.
〔医〕菌血症
Example sentencesExamples
- Fever may be a marker of sepsis, localized infection, occult bacteremia, or benign illness.
- Invasive disease includes bacteremia, meningitis and infection in a normally sterile site, excluding the middle ear.
- In the medical setting, one study asked doctors to judge the probability that medical inpatients had bacteraemia.
- Serious complications from salmonellosis include bacteremia and cardiovascular infection.
- Although severely malnourished children may not have obvious signs of infection such as fever and tachypnoea, the prevalence of bacteraemia, urinary tract infections, and pneumonia is high.
Derivatives
adjective
Medicine The infection may then rapidly progress to full-blown bacteremic septic shock, accompanied by hypotension, anuria, disseminated intravascular coagulation and hypoglycemia.
Example sentencesExamples
- The direct clinical relevance of such rodent studies may not be immediately apparent, because humans with airway infection rarely become bacteremic or septic when infected with even the wild-type, more virulent organisms.
- The medical records of children younger than 16 years with bacteremic urinary tract infection were reviewed.
- Antibiotic prophylaxis is recommended for bacteremic procedures to prevent brain abscess.
- For instance, genetic diversity among invasive isolates of E coli cultured from a bacteremic patient with pyelonephritis is relatively limited compared to all the isolates colonizing the large bowel.
Origin
Late 19th century: from bacterium + -aemia.
Definition of bacteremia in US English:
bacteremia
(British bacteraemia)
nounˌbæktəˈrimiəˌbaktəˈrēmēə
Medicine The presence of bacteria in the blood.
〔医〕菌血症
Example sentencesExamples
- Serious complications from salmonellosis include bacteremia and cardiovascular infection.
- Fever may be a marker of sepsis, localized infection, occult bacteremia, or benign illness.
- In the medical setting, one study asked doctors to judge the probability that medical inpatients had bacteraemia.
- Although severely malnourished children may not have obvious signs of infection such as fever and tachypnoea, the prevalence of bacteraemia, urinary tract infections, and pneumonia is high.
- Invasive disease includes bacteremia, meningitis and infection in a normally sterile site, excluding the middle ear.
Origin
Late 19th century: from bacterium + -emia.