What Does Puerperant Mean?
N. a Woman Who Has Just Given Birth. What Does Puerperal Mean? Puerperium: the Time Immediately After the Delivery of a Baby. (In Latin a "Puerpera" Is a Woman...
n. A woman who has just given birth.
What does puerperal mean?
Puerperium: The time immediately after the delivery of a baby. (In Latin a "puerpera" is a woman in childbirth since "puer" means child and "parere" means to give birth.) Puerperal fever is childbirth (or childbed) fever due to an infection usually of the placental site within the uterus.
What is puerperal tetanus?
n. Tetanus occurring during the puerperium, caused by obstetric infection. postpartum tetanus.
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