Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of a woman during childbirth or immediately thereafter.
- noun The approximate six-week period lasting from childbirth to the return of normal uterine size.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The puerperal state.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obstetrics The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s
uterus shrinks back to itsprepartum state.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So it was that I entered my puerperium, which is gynecological for the time of recovery after delivering, the time of post-partum elation.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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So it was that I entered my puerperium, which is gynecological for the time of recovery after delivering, the time of post-partum elation.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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Nor will the inscription upon the altar serve to establish Pliny's opinion; because Agrippina was delivered of two daughters in that country, and any child-birth, without regard to sex, is called puerperium, as the ancients were used to call girls puerae, and boys puelli.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Nor will the inscription upon the altar serve to establish Pliny's opinion; because Agrippina was delivered of two daughters in that country, and any child-birth, without regard to sex, is called puerperium, as the ancients were used to call girls puerae, and boys puelli.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Popularly spoken of as the "lying-in period," and medically known as the puerperium, this time of convalescence immediately following childbirth is usually occupied by two important things: the restoration of the pelvic organs to their normal condition before pregnancy, and the starting of that wonderfully adaptative mechanism concerned with the production of the varying and daily changing food supply of the offspring.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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"And for this reason and in recognition of the need to reduce maternal deaths, deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period of up to about six weeks after childbirth, during which the uterus returns to its normal size) that government proclaimed these events notifiable with effect from 1 October 1997," Dr Ramokgopa said.
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"And for this reason and in recognition of the need to reduce maternal deaths, deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period of up to about six weeks after childbirth, during which the uterus returns to its normal size) that government proclaimed these events notifiable with effect from 1 October 1997," Dr Ramokgopa said.
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Annual number of deaths to women as a result of childbirth i.e. assigned to causes of deaths related to complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium per 100,000 live births in that year.
The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997
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Death as a result of pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium (period at and immediately following childbirth) are now so low in the United States (as in other developed nations) as to present only minor risks, especially before age thirty-five.
The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997
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Blood volume changes in pregnancy and the puerperium.
7. REFERENCES 1996
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