Development of verbalization of concept "sepsis" in a medical discourse

The current article presents frame analysis of concept structure of 'sepsis' from medicine's origin to modern scientific theories. The frame includes etymological slot 'colour', historical slot 'pus', pre-scientific-period slots ('putrefaction', 'septicemia', 'pyosepticemia') and scientific-period slots ('blood infection', 'infective disease', 'antibiosis', 'antibiotics', 'antiseptics', 'aseptics ', 'bactericidal activity'). Each slot is verbalized accordingly which allows to trace formation and development of the concept 'sepsis' in medical discourse.