"Pyemia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to diseased conditions which are so nearly alike in their symptoms that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the one from the other. Indeed, the name pyosepticemia, or septicopyemia, is often applied when it is impossible to make a distinction between septicemia and pyemia or where each is equally responsible for the diseased condition. The name septicemia is derived from two Greek words meaning "poison" and "blood," and signifies that the germ lives in the blood, hence the use of the term "blood poisoning" for this disease. ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture |
