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Definition of Puerpera
1. Noun. A woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter.
Definition of Puerpera
1. a woman who has recently given birth to a child [n -PERAE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puerpera
Literary usage of Puerpera
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.) (1886)
"PULMONARY THROMBOSIS IN puerpera. DB. PETER YOUNG contributes to the Edinburgh
Medical Journal, July, 1885, p. 41, an interesting paper on this subject. ..."
2. A Text-book of Obstetrics: Including the Pathology and Therapeutics of the by Franz Winckel (1890)
"The Phenomena Observed in the Healthy puerpera. LITERATURE. ... If the puerpera
is not subjected to harmful influences, she will have no fever. ..."
3. Obstetrics, Normal and Operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"Sagittal section of the pelvic organs of a puerpera on the second day after delivery.
(Ahlfeld.) lax uterus of a multipara does not contract as well as does ..."
4. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society, Robert Gray Mayne by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society, Robert Gray Mayne (1882)
"(L. puerpera, a woman vagina which occurs sometimes in lying-in women. ...
A putrid or gangrenous condition of the vagina. C. puerpera rum. ..."
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