different between sepsis vs asepsis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (sêpsis, “putrefaction”), from ?????? (s?pein, “to make rotten”), from ??? (s?ps, “a kind of lizard; also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ps?s/

Noun

sepsis (countable and uncountable, plural sepses)

1. (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.

Related terms

• antiseptic
• asepsis
• aseptic
• septic
• septicemia
• septicity

Translations

Further reading

• sepsis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sepsis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sepsis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pisses, speiss

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sepsis/, [?s?e?ps?is?]
• Rhymes: -epsis
• Syllabification: sep?sis

Noun

sepsis

1. sepsis

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (sêpsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sebsis/, [?se??.sis]

Noun

sepsis f (plural sepsis)

1. (pathology) sepsis

Related terms

• septicemia
• séptico

Further reading

• “sepsis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

a- +? sepsis

Noun

asepsis (uncountable)

1. (pathology) The state of being free from sepsis.
2. (pathology) The process of removing pathogenic organisms or protecting against such organisms.

Translations

Anagrams

• asspies, saepiss.