Crossword clues for puerperium
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
puerperium
"confinement during and after childbirth," 1863, from Latin puerperus (see puerperal).
Wiktionary
puerperium
n. (context obstetrics English) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
WordNet
puerperium
n. time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved; "a perinatologist cared for her during the puerperium"
Usage examples of "puerperium".
Walters looked into the statistics of such cases and found 36 accidental removals of the uterus in the puerperium with 14 recoveries.