Usually means: Life-threatening response to infection.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word sepsis:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. sepsis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sepsis: Merriam-Webster
  3. sepsis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sepsis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sepsis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sepsis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sepsis, sepsis: Wordnik
  8. sepsis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sepsis: Wiktionary
  10. sepsis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sepsis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sepsis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sepsis: Dictionary.com
  14. sepsis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sepsis (fly), Sepsis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sepsis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sepsis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sepsis: Rhymezone
  19. Sepsis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sepsis: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sepsis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sepsis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -sepsis: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sepsis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. sepsis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sepsis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Sepsis: Merck Manuals
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  11. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  12. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  13. Sepsis: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  14. sepsis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  15. Sepsis: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  16. sepsis: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  17. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  18. -sepsis, sepsis: Medical dictionary
  19. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  20. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  21. Sepsis: Drug Medical Dictionary
  22. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. sepsis: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  (pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.

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