puerperal fever
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
puerperal fever (countable and uncountable, plural puerperal fevers)
- (pathology, obstetrics) A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 344:
- It was the rise of penicillin, not improved hygiene, that finally conquered puerperal fever.
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Translations[edit]
fever due to infection of the uterus
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