septicemia

As nouns the difference between septicemia and meningococcemia

is that septicemia is a disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever while meningococcemia is meningococcal septicemia, a form of sepsis caused by the bacterium species: Neisseria meningitidis.

In pathology terms the difference between septicemia and pyaemia

is that septicemia is a disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever while pyaemia is a type of septicemia caused usually by the presence of Staphylococcus bacteria in the bloodstream; characterised by metastatic abscesses and other symptoms associated with septicemia.