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Definition of Childbed fever
1. Noun. Serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon.
Definition of Childbed fever
1. Noun. puerperal fever ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Childbed fever
1. Postpartum sepsis with a rise in fever after the first 24 hours following delivery, but before the eleventh postpartum day. Synonym: childbed fever, puerperal sepsis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Childbed Fever
Literary usage of Childbed fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"It is in many point« of view a very able treatise on childbed fever, by one who
has had much experience in its management, ..."
2. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"Now the term childbed fever is one of these deceiving words; ... It is, therefore,
unfortunate for science that the word childbed fever was ever introduced, ..."
3. Essays on the puerperal fever and other diseases peculiar to women: Selected by Fleetwood Churchill, Sydenham Society (1849)
"BY CHARLES WHITE, FRS1 CHAPTER I. OF THE CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF THE PUERPERAL OR
childbed fever.5 WOMEN, during the time of lying-in, are subject to this ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1856)
"1 have attended some thousands of women in labour, and passed through repeated
epidemics of childbed fever, both in town and hospital. ..."
5. On the diseases of women: Including Those of Pregnancy and Childbed by Fleetwood Churchill (1857)
"The low adynamic form of childbed fever that so generally prevails in over-crowded
and ill-ventilated hospitals, is supposed by some to be either purely ..."
6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1893)
"Semmelweis on childbed fever: its Causes and Prevention. By THEODORE DUKA, MD,
FRCSEng. Hertford: Stephen Austin & Sons. 1892. Pp. 30. ..."
7. The Origin of Life and Process of Reproduction in Plants and Animals: With by Frederick Hollick (1878)
"Puerperal Fever, or childbed fever. THIS is undoubtedly the most serious of all
those maladies that so often follow labor. It appears from medical records ..."
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