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Puerperal

adjective
1.
Relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth.



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... yesterday afternoon, when she was continuing to do well. There were some indications of excitement about her, though whether from mental or physical causes I could not tell, but nothing to awaken concern. This morning I found her in a most critical condition. Puerperal fever had set in, with evident extensive peritoneal involvement. The case was malignant, all the abdominal viscera being more or less affected. I learned from the nurse that Mr. Ridley was away all night, and that Mrs. Ridley, who was restless and feverish through the ...
— Danger - or Wounded in the House of a Friend • T. S. Arthur


Words linked to "Puerperal" :   puerpera, puerperium, childbirth


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