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Definition of Puerperal 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 Puerperal fever
1. Noun. (pathology) A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puerperal Fever
Literary usage of Puerperal 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.) (1886)
"There is not in obstetric literature a more fervid apostle of the doctrines that
puerperal fever is always the same, that it is an inflammation, ..."
2. The Lancet (1898)
"Sine,—An appeal for a definition of puerperal fever comes once again. "Inquirer"
wishes to know whether all cases of peritonitis occurring at childbirth ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"UNTIL within a few years the term "puerperal fever" has been applied to certain
conditions of the parturient woman without conveying any very definite idea ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1795)
"Typhus and the puerperal fever differ in fe- veral ... that excites the infection
of the puerperal fever, ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"puerperal fever occurs in such varied forms that numerous divisions or species
of it have been suggested. The late Dr Gooch, one of the highest authorities ..."
6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"The purpose of " notification " of a case of puerperal fever is that measures
... puerperal fever does not in this country commonly occur in epidemic form ..."
7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"This may be regarded as the true epidemic puerperal fever. Those who maintain
these views also believe in the contagiousness of the disease, ..."
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