septicemic plague(n = noun.state) - an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person;
is a kind of pest, pestilence, pestis, plague

ambulant plague, ambulatory plague, black plague, bubonic plague, cattle plague, glandular plague, plague, plague pneumonia, plague spot, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, septicemic, tin plague, white plague