Puerperal

Word PUERPERAL
Character 9
Hyphenation pu er per al
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Puerperal"

What do we mean by puerperal?

Relating to, connected with, or occurring during childbirth or the period immediately following childbirth. adjective

Of or pertaining to childbirth.

Of or pertaining to childbirth. adjective

Of, pertaining to or associated with childbirth. adjective

Relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth adjective

Of, pertaining to or associated with childbirth.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Puerperal

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The word "puerperal" in example sentences

All of these women were attacked with different forms of what is commonly called puerperal fever. ❋ Various (N/A)

Under the expression puerperal fever are grouped very different diseases, 7 but all appearing to be the result of the growth of common organisms which by their presence infect the pus naturally formed on injured surfaces, which spread by one means or another, by the blood or the lymphatics, to one or another part of the body, and there induce morbid changes varying with the condition of the parts, the nature of the parasite, and the general constitution of the subject. ❋ Unknown (1909)

In contrast, at the midwife-staffed clinic, about 4% of the women died of childbed fever also called puerperal fever. ❋ Ah Yuan // Wingstodust (2010)

Another example is what is known as puerperal insanity. ❋ William J. Robinson (N/A)

It is granted that all the forms of what is called puerperal fever may not be, and probably are not, equally contagious or infectious. ❋ Various (N/A)

The counsel for the prosecution began by asking Sir John various questions concerning the terrible malady known as puerperal fever, and especially with reference to its contagiousness. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

In its very statement of the doctrine maintained it avoids all discussion of the nature of the disease "known as puerperal fever," and all the somewhat stale philology of the word contagion. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

This disease is technically termed puerperal fever, and it may be regarded as one of the most fatal diseases to which lying-in women are subject. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

In the mid 19th century women often died after child birth from a disease called puerperal fever. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such collocation would include conditions which directly or indirectly affect the digestion, such as puerperal laminitis, drinking of large quantities of cold water and exposure to cold and rain when the body is warm. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

His discoveries reduced the mortality of puerperal fever and the first vaccine for rabies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So common are “the more pronounced forms of mental derangement” among pregnant women, he wrote, “that of the insane who crowd the public asylums, in one eighth the malady is of puerperal origin.” ❋ Annie Murphy Paul (2010)

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