PUERPERIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does puerperium mean? 

• PUERPERIUM (noun)
  The noun PUERPERIUM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PUERPERIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUERPERIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

a perinatologist cared for her during the puerperium

Hypernyms ("puerperium" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Derivation:

puerperal (relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth)

 Context examples 

A medical-surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period shortly after birth).

(Obstetrics, NCI Thesaurus)