different between puerperium vs puerperal

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

English

Etymology

From New Latin puerperalis, from Latin puerpera (“woman in childbirth”), from puer (“child”) + pari? (“I bear”).

Adjective

puerperal (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to or associated with childbirth.

Derived terms

• extrapuerperal
• puerperal fever
• puerperal and nonpuerperal mastitis

Related terms

• antepartum
• parous
• postpartum
• puerperium

Translations