Definitions for puerperal

puerperal pu·er·per·al

Spelling: [pyoo-ur-per-uh l]
IPA: /pyuˈɜr pər əl/

Puerperal is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in puerperal (aeelpprru).

Definitions for puerperal

adjective

  1. of or relating to a woman in childbirth.
  2. pertaining to or connected with childbirth.

Origin of puerperal

First recorded in 1760-70, puerperal is from the New Latin word puerperālis of childbirth. See puerpera, -al1

Examples for puerperal

But in puerperal peritonitis I have noticed a fact to which I have nowhere seen an allusion.

The phenomena of puerperal fever originate in a vitiation of the fluids.

This condition may be mistaken for a general sepsis which is puerperal.

Alleged sudden and great decrease of mortality from puerperal fever.

In the puerperal state an inflammation of one or several articulations is not unfrequently observed (puerperal rheumatism).

It's puerperal fever, and Heaven knows what gave it to her, for I don't.

We are aware that it is resorted to in burns, and highly eulogized in puerperal and yellow fever.

It is doubtful whether this should be considered a case of puerperal fever.

Pasteur's discovery of the microbial cause of puerperal fever has in itself enormously reduced the deaths of women in child-birth.

The consequence was that he infected them, and puerperal fever was contracted.

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