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UK
/pjˈuːəpəɹəl/
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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
How To Use puerperal In A Sentence
- He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever.
- A physician holding himself in readiness to attend cases of midwifery should never take part in the postmortem examination of cases of puerperal fever.
- Guidelines for the evaluation of nonpuerperal galactorrhea should also include inquiry about previous pregnancy or lactation.
- Continuing the consideration of the influence of the generative organs in the production of insanity, I come now to puerperal insanity.
- Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century.
- Does the month eliminate can cure puerperal fever?
- Dewees 6.61 reports a case of puerperal convulsions in a patient under his care which was attended with sudden canities. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Puerperal insanity proper comes on within one month of parturition; and, like the insanity of pregnancy, occurs most often in primiparae.
- Semmelweis, for instance, is associated with 1847, the year when he introduced antisepsis by chlorine washings to prevent puerperal fever.
- Childbirth fever (This is also called childbed fever, postpartum infection, or puerperal infection.) Chapter 33
