puerperal

/pyoo-ur-per-uhl/US // pyuˈɜr pər əl //UK // (pjuːˈɜːpərəl) //

产褥期,产褥期的,产后,产期

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of or relating to a woman in childbirth.
- : pertaining to or connected with childbirth.

Puerperal, pū-ėr′pėr-al, adj. relating to childbirth—also Pūer′perous.
In epidemics of puerperal fever this form of erysipelas has been specially found to prevail.
Poison was of course suspected; but her death was really caused by puerperal convulsions (eclampsia).
The whole of the preceding remarks apply even more to children and to puerperal women than to patients in general.
Mental disturbances and morbid impulses associated with pregnancy or the puerperal state may be dispelled in the same way.