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PUERPERAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does puerperal mean? 

PUERPERAL (adjective)
  The adjective PUERPERAL has 1 sense:

1. relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birthplay

  Familiarity information: PUERPERAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PUERPERAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

childbirth (the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child)

puerpera (a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter)

puerperium (time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved)

Derivation:

puerpera (a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter)

puerperium (time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved)


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