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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: septicus, from Greek, from sepein; SEPSIS

septic

 adjective
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability
sep‧tic especially British English
MI a wound or part of your body that is septic is infected with bacteria:
a cut that went septic
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