An elderly patient presents to the Emergency Department with an extremely high fever. The doctor is concerned the patient might have a systemwide disease caused by bacteria in the circulating blood. This condition is called:
A) lymphoma
B) splenomegaly
C) anemia
D) septicemia
D
Explanation: A high fever indicates that the body is fighting off an infection that has spread to the blood. The constructed term is sept, the root for sepsis in Greek, meaning "putrefying"; -ic, "condition"; and -emia, "blood." The other terms can be eliminated by deconstructing them: lymph/oma, "lymphatic tumor"; splen/o/megaly, "enlargement of the spleen"; and an/emia, "without blood."
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