puerperal
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˌpjʊərˈpɪrəl/
- Specialized
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puerperal
- Many women experience severe mood swings during the puerperal period as their hormone levels fluctuate.
- puerperal fever
- puerperal sepsis
- puerperal infection
Examples
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He noticed how one clinic had an average maternal mortality rate of about 10 percent due to puerperal fever, while the other clinic had less than 4 percent.
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The most frequent causes of maternal mortality among blacks in the 1933-1935 period were puerperal sepsis and toxemia, both of which were recognized as preventable.
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The other deaths were due largely to puerperal hemorrhages and accidents of pregnancy or labor.
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Phillips Cutright and Edward Shorter found that puerperal fever.
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Williams found that slightly more than half of obstetrics professors believed more women died from puerperal infection at the hands of doctors than from midwives.
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For instance, she had a long-standing fascination with childbed (puerperal) fever.
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Of course, discussion of the Virgin's puerperal purity was also taking place on a less technical level, as part of a narrative tradition that had existed since at least the second century C.E. and the Protevangelium of James.
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"General practitioners lost as many and possibly more women from puerperal sepsis than... midwives." Noyes concluded, "If the midwife does better work untrained than the general practitioner, what type of work would she do after six months or one year of careful training?"
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The hospital implemented a new protocol to monitor puerperal health issues among postpartum mothers.
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After delivery, it's important for caregivers to be aware of potential puerperal complications that can affect the new mother.
Synonyms
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5.0
Happening in the time after a woman gives birth
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4.1
About the time after a baby is born for the mother or newborn
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.9
A serious infection women get after childbirth or abortion from unclean conditions
How Postpartum
- Specialized
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9.9
- Specialized
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7.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word puerperal comes from the Latin puerpera, made of puer 'child' and parere 'to give birth'. So puerperal means 'after childbirth' and relates to the new mother, and you can remember parere in the English word parent.