sepsis (sepsis)

[NL., tion, tridity or putrefaction; decomposition; rot. 2. Contamination tamin at i on of the organism from ill conditioned wounds, from absce es, or certain other local ptomaïne-factories or bacterial semi naries; septicemia. It includes of course similar conditions produced experimentally by inoculation.-3. [ cap.] In entom., a genus of dipterous insects of the family Muscidæ. Fallen, 1810. sept1 (sept), n. [Early mod. E. also septe ; usually regarded as a corruption of sect (perhaps due to a ociation with L. sæptum, septum , a fence, an inclosure: see sept2 ): see sect1 .] A clan: used especially of the tribes or families in Ireland. IMG:content-0635.png:[blocks in formation] [NL.: see Septaria1 .] A concretion or nodule of considerable size, and roughly spherical in shape, of which the parts nearest the center have become cracked during the drying of the ma , the open spaces thus formed having been subsequently filled with some infiltrated mineral, usually calcite. Such septaria or septarian nodules are abundant in various shaly rocks, especially in the Lia ic beds in England. Septata (sep-ta'tä), n. pl . [NL., neut. pl. of L. sept at us , sæptatus : see septate .] An order of gregarines in which the medullary substance is separated into two chambers-an anterior smaller one called pro to me rite , and a posterior larger one called deutomerite , which contains the nucleus. The genera Gregarina and Hoplo rhynchus are representative of the order. E. R. Lankester .