Chinese symbol for “sepsis”
脓毒症
nóng dú zhèng
Traditional: 膿毒症
sepsis
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sepsis is 脓毒症 (nóng dú zhèng), defined as: sepsis.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 脓毒症.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 脓肿 (膿腫) | nóng zhǒng | abscess |
| 脓包 (膿包) | nóng bāo | pustule; (fig.) worthless person |
| 脓疱 (膿皰) | nóng pào | pimple containing pus |
| 化脓 (化膿) | huà nóng | to fester; to suppurate |
| 化脓性 (化膿性) | huà nóng xìng | purulent (containing pus); septic |
| 流脓 (流膿) | liú nóng | to discharge pus; to suppurate |
| 病毒 | bìng dú | virus |
| 毒品 | dú pǐn | drugs; narcotics |
| 症状 (症狀) | zhèng zhuàng | symptom (of an illness) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sepsis”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.