blood poisoning

invasion of the blood by toxic matter or microorganisms, characterized by chills, sweating, fever, and prostration; toxemia; septicemia; pyemia.

Origin of blood poisoning

First recorded in 1860–65

Instead, grievances festered and went bad, and blood-poisoning was rapidly setting in.

Mystery at Geneva |Rose Macaulay
N'Soon hung on nobly, but was at last sent away with blood-poisoning.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider |W. H. L. Watson
Death is likely to follow within two days, the result of blood-poisoning and exhaustion.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 |Various
I happened to have blood-poisoning, not scabies, and I have it still.

An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 |William Orpen

He seems to have loved blood for its own sake—to have been seized by a vertigo of blood-poisoning.

The Expositor's Bible |F. W. Farrar

blood poisoning

a nontechnical term for septicaemia

blood poisoning

septicemia

toxemia

blood poisoning

See toxemia.