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Meaning of "puerperal" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PUERPERAL

From New Latin puerperālis relating to childbirth.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PUERPERAL

puerperal  [pjuːˈɜːpərəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUERPERAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Puerperal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PUERPERAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

puerperal

Postpartum period

A postpartum period is the period beginning immediately after the birth of a child and extending for about six weeks. Less frequently used are the terms puerperium or puerperal period. It is the time after birth, a time in which the mother's body, including hormone levels and uterus size, returns to a non-pregnant state. Lochia is postpartum vaginal discharge, containing blood, mucus, and uterine tissue. In scientific literature, the term is commonly abbreviated to PX. So that 'day P5' should be read as 'the fifth day after birth'. This is not to be confused with medical nomenclature that uses G P to stand for number of pregnancy and outcome of pregnancy.

Definition of puerperal in the English dictionary

The definition of puerperal in the dictionary is of, relating to, or occurring during the puerperium.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUERPERAL


agricultural
ˌæɡrɪˈkʌltʃərəl
atemporal
eɪˈtɛmpərəl
corporal
ˈkɔːpərəl
cultural
ˈkʌltʃərəl
extemporal
eksˈtempərəl
federal
ˈfɛdərəl
funeral
ˈfjuːnərəl
general
ˈdʒɛnərəl
incorporal
ɪnˈkɔːpərəl
incorporall
ɪnˈkɔːpərəl
mineral
ˈmɪnərəl
nonpareil
ˈnɒnpərəl
nontemporal
ˌnɒnˈtɛmpərəl
rural
ˈrʊərəl
spatiotemporal
ˌspeɪʃɪəʊˈtɛmpərəl
structural
ˈstrʌktʃərəl
supratemporal
ˌsuːprəˈtɛmpərəl
temporal
ˈtɛmpərəl
vesperal
ˈvɛspərəl
zooperal
zəʊˈɒpərəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUERPERAL

pueblo
puer
puerile
puerilely
puerilism
puerility
puerpera
puerperal fever
puerperal psychosis
puerperally
puerperium
Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Pufendorf
puff
puff adder
puff paste

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUERPERAL

attorney general
bilateral
collateral
director general
director-general
Distrito Federal
ephemeral
feral
four-star general
in general
lateral
liberal
literal
multilateral
numeral
peripheral
secretary-general
several
unilateral
visceral

Synonyms and antonyms of puerperal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «puerperal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUERPERAL

Find out the translation of puerperal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of puerperal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «puerperal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

产褥
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

puerperal
570 millions of speakers

English

puerperal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ज़च्चा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نفاسي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

послеродовый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

puerperal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সন্তানপ্রসবঘটিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

puerpéral
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Puerperal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wochenbett-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

産後の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

출산의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Puerperal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về sanh đẻ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழந்தை பெறுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रीपेरेल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

doğum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

puerperale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

połogową
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

післяродовий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

puerperală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιλόχειο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

puerperale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

puerperal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

barsel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of puerperal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUERPERAL»

The term «puerperal» is normally little used and occupies the 111.978 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUERPERAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «puerperal» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «puerperal» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about puerperal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUERPERAL»

Discover the use of puerperal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to puerperal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Varney's Midwifery
44. Screening. for. and. Midwifery. Management. of. Puerperal. Abnormality. The complications of the puerperium presented in this chapter are those that the midwife is most likely to confront. Those complications requiring physician ...
Helen Varney, Jan M. Kriebs, Carolyn L. Gegor, 2004
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Puerperal Convalescence and the Diseases of the Puerperal Period
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
Joseph Kucher, 2010
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Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry
Illnesses in the relatives were not confined to the psychoses, but rather there was a mixture of depression, manic-depression, psychopathy, alcoholism and suicide. Thuwe also found that around 10% of the children of patients with puerperal ...
George Stein, Greg Wilkinson, 2007
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Puerperal Disorders: Advances in Research and Treatment: ...
Puerperal Disorders: Advances in Research and Treatment: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyPaper™ that delivers timely, authoritative, and intensively focused information about Puerperal Disorders in a compact format.
‎2012
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What is puerperal fever?
Edward William Murphy. which diminished as it became diffused. Puerperal fever also obeys the law of incubation ; but it is difficult to determine the period accurately. Two morbid poisons may coexist; this is not a law, but a well-known fact of ...
Edward William Murphy, 1857
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Treatise on puerperal peritonitis
Certain practitioners, and among others, Delaroche, Doublet, Osiander, and Hufeland, are of opinion that puerperal peritonitis occurs most frequently in females who have had a very prompt delivery ; and in support of this, Doublet cites the ...
Auguste César Baudelocque, 1831
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Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition.
Charles James Cullingworth, 2012
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Facts, Observations and Practical Illustrations, Relative to ...
Such a conclusion and determination I would ' mostearnestly recommend every medical m'an'to form; first, because there is perhaps no disease more uniform than puerperal feverin-the symptoms and morbid derangements which it induces;  ...
John Armstrong, 1823
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Women and Health in America: Historical Readings
Male physicians and their female patients together created puerperal insanity, and that creation both reflected and contributed to sexual ideology and medical specialization. Before elaborating this interpretation, a more thorough examination ...
Judith Walzer Leavitt, 1999
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On the Nature, Pathology and Treatment of Puerperal Convulsions
phenomena constituting the disease of puerperal convulsions. From the foregoing remarks, it will be seen, then, that the brain, or that portion of it ministering to the higher functions of sensation and volition, may be alone affected without the ...
Richard Hodges, 1864

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUERPERAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term puerperal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Puerperal Problems in Mare Reviewed
Mares are most susceptible to developing puerperal (after birthing) diseases within the ... clinic over a 10-year period, the team identified 21 puerperal diseases. «TheHorse.com, Jul 15»
2
Evolución a largo plazo de las pacientes con psicosis puerperal
La psicosis puerperal de inicio temprano por lo general es de tipo afectivo. La psicosis breve o cicloide, como episodio es un índice de psicosis puerperal, ... «IntraMed, Jun 15»
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Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who saved lives by prescribing hand …
His plea was far more than aesthetic; it was a matter of life and death and helped to prevent a deadly malady known as “childbed” or puerperal (from the Latin ... «PBS NewsHour, May 15»
4
Factores predictivos de la psicosis bipolar afectiva puerperal
El objetivo del presente trabajo fue identificar los factores de riesgo de psicosis afectiva bipolar puerperal en 129 mujeres, mediante la comparación entre los ... «IntraMed, May 15»
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The Doctor Who Championed Hand-Washing And Briefly Saved Lives
Semmelweis wanted to figure out why so many women in maternity wards were dying from puerperal fever — commonly known as childbed fever. He studied ... «KUOW News and Information, Jan 15»
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Ignaz Semmelweis: A physician-hero
This condition—now known as puerperal fever—was much more common in the physician-run First Clinic than in the midwife-run Second Clinic. The disease ... «ModernMedicine, Dec 14»
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Women, antibiotics and the Longitude Prize
Puerperal fever, caused by infection in lying-in hospitals due to failure to understand fundamental facts ... Puerperal fever in the west is all but unheard of now. «The Guardian, Jul 14»
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Insanity in the Ward
Puerperal (postpartum) psychosis is a very rare but severe mental health condition that is experienced by one or two in 1000 women in the weeks after having a ... «The West Australian, Jul 14»
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The Contemporary Semmelweis Reflex: History as an Imperfect …
He suggested that practitioners rinse hands with chlorine solution and change clothing following interactions with infected patients to avoid spreading puerperal ... «Infection Control Today, Jun 14»
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Fiebre puerperal, sus causas
Son diversas las causas que pueden dar lugar a la fiebre puerperal, tales como congestión mamaria por acumulación de leche y que no haya sido extraída ... «El Siglo de Torreón, Dec 13»

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