Puerperium Definition
pyo͝oər-pîrē-əm
puerperia
noun
The period or state of confinement during and just after childbirth.
Webster's New World
The approximate six-week period lasting from childbirth to the return of normal uterine size.
American Heritage Medicine
Other Word Forms of Puerperium
Noun
Singular:
puerperium
Plural:
puerperiaOrigin of Puerperium
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From Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth"), noun form of puerperus (“of a woman in labour"), adjectival form of puerpera (“a woman in her childbed"), from puer (“boy") + pariō (“I bear").
From Wiktionary
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Latin childbirth from puerpera a woman in childbed puerperal
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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