Puerperal Definition

pyo͝o-ûrpər-əl
adjective
Of or connected with childbirth.
Webster's New World

Origin of Puerperal

  • From Latin puerper a woman in childbed puer child, boy pau-1 in Indo-European roots parere to bear –parous

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From New Latin puerperalis, from Latin puerpera (“woman in childbirth"), from puer (“boy") + pariō (“I bear").

    From Wiktionary

Puerperal Sentence Examples

  • The diseases to which the act applies are smallpox, cholera, membranous croup, erysipelas, scarlatina or scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued or puerperal fever, and any other infectious disease to which the act has been applied by the local authority of the district in the prescribed manner.

  • It has indeed been asserted that the slow pulse characteristic of the puerperal period is really due to the common administration of ergot at that time.

  • We haven't come across any more detailed information about puerperal psychosis which is aimed at the lay reader.

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