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puerperium

English

Etymology

From Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), noun form of puerperus (“of a woman in labour”), adjectival form of puerpera (“a woman in her childbed”), from puer (“boy”) + pari? (“I bear”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?pu?.??pi?.?i.?m/, /?pu?.??pi?.?i.?m/

Noun

puerperium (plural puerperia)

  1. (obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
    • 1921, Robert Bing & Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of nervous diseases for students and practicing physicians: In Thirty Lectures, p84
      As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.

Related terms

  • antepartum
  • parous
  • postpartum
  • puerperal

Translations

Anagrams

  • pure-impure

Latin

Etymology

puerpera +? -ium

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /pu.er?pe.ri.um/, [pu?r?p??i???]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pu.er?pe.ri.um/, [pu?r?p???ium]

Noun

puerperium n (genitive puerperi? or puerper?); second declension

  1. childbirth, delivery, childbed, confinement, lying-in

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

  • puer

References

  • puerperium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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