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PUERPERAL
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I. (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)
