Puerperium Definition

pyo͝oər-pîrē-əm
puerperia
noun
The period or state of confinement during and just after childbirth.
Webster's New World
The approximate six-week period lasting from childbirth to the return of normal uterine size.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Puerperium

Noun

Singular:
puerperium
Plural:
puerperia

Origin of Puerperium

  • From Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth"), noun form of puerperus (“of a woman in labour"), adjectival form of puerpera (“a woman in her childbed"), from puer (“boy") + pariō (“I bear").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin childbirth from puerpera a woman in childbed puerperal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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