puerperium

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌpuː.ɝˈpiː.ɹi.əm/, /ˌpuː.ɚˈpiː.ɹi.əm/

Noun

puerperium (plural puerperia)

1. (obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
   • 1921, Robert Bing & Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of nervous diseases for students and practicing physicians: In Thirty Lectures, p84

     As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.

Related terms

• antepartum
• parous
• postpartum
• puerperal

Translations

• Portuguese: puerpério
• Spanish: puerperio

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