Similar words: puerperal, puerpera, puerperium, fever pitch, computer peripheral, several, severally, several times. Meaning: n. serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon.
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1) Three weeks later Lavender had died of puerperal fever, but long before that Legh had come to his senses.
2) Does the month eliminate can cure puerperal fever?
3) Otherwise known as puerperal fever, it was an infection which followed childbirth and resulted in miserable and agonizing deaths for thousands of women every year.
4) Puerperal fever (or childbed fever ):Infection of the female reproductive system after childbirth or abortion, with fever over 100 f (38 c) in the first 10 days.
5) He urged fellow surgeons to wash themselves, put on clean clothes and refrain from deliveries for 48 hours after coming into contact with a case of puerperal fever.
6) It is not certain whether a cut in Semmelweis' finger at the time he entered the asylum led to his death from puerperal fever, or maybe this was just conjecture on the part of historians.
7) Indicated for streptococcus disease, toxoplasmosis, coccidiosis , yellow scours and white scours of young animal, edema, mastitis of female animals, metritis, and puerperal fever etc.
8) He introduced ( 1935 ) the use of sulfonamide antibacterial drug, as a cure for puerperal fever.
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