puerperal fever

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puerperal fever (countable and uncountable, plural puerperal fevers)

  1. (pathology, obstetrics) A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus.
    • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 344:
      It was the rise of penicillin, not improved hygiene, that finally conquered puerperal fever.

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