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puerperal fever

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puerperal fever
n.
An illness resulting from infection of the endometrium following childbirth or abortion, marked by fever and septicemia and usually caused by unsterile technique. Also called childbed fever.
puerperal fever
n
(Medicine / Pathology) a serious, formerly widespread, form of blood poisoning caused by infection contracted during childbirth
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Noun1.puerperal fever - serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon
childbed fever
blood poisoning, septicaemia, septicemia - invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection
Translations
puerperal fever
n → Kindbettfieber nt, → Puerperalfieber nt (spec)


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