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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues
originFrom Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis, “putrefaction”), from σήπω (sḗpō, “to make rotten”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard; also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0