viraemian.
/vʌɪˈriːmɪə/ Medicine.
The condition in which viruses are present in the bloodstream.
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piarhaemia1848
uraemia1853
melanaemia1859
urinaemia1860
lithaemia1874
lipaemia1881
blood urea1883
haemoglobinaemia1885
bacteraemia1890
oxalaemia1892
uric-acidaemia1893
sulphaemoglobinaemia1910
carotenaemia1919
parasitaemia1944
viraemia1947
paraproteinaemia1956
1947 Dorland & Miller Med. Dict. (ed. 21) 1619/1 Viremia.
1954 Jrnl. Pediatrics 44 20/1 Little is known about the presence of viremia during the course of the disease [sc. poliomyelitis] in man.
1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxv. 383 Infection with poliovirus leads first to proliferation in the intestinal mucosa. A viraemia follows and it is probably thus that the virus usually reaches the central nervous system.
1977 Lancet 23 Apr. 884/1 The possibility that this illness is a consequence of early viræmia should not be overlooked.
Derivatives
viˈraemic adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [adjective] > presence of abnormalities
uraemic1855
melanaemic1859
lithaemic1889
uricaemic1900
bacteraemic1951
viraemic1954
hyperuricaemic1962
1954 Jrnl. Pediatrics 44 25/2 The infectious process is now almost generally regarded as one which begins with a viremic stage.
1979 Nature 17 May 200/2 Chickens, mice or cats neonatally infected with oncornaviruses become viraemic, develop low or no anti-tumour immunity and usually succumb to their tumours.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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