4 example sentences using puerperal.
Puerperal used in a sentence
Puerperal in a sentence as an adjective
The puerperal fever that was killing the women laboring in the delivery room was caused by doctors doing autopsies beforehand.
It's quite odd to dismiss better sanitation and nutrition as not medicine, isn't it?I think the problem is that we take for granted the things that have been discovered, because they were found a long time ago. Washing surgeons' hands in carbolic acid help puerperal fever rates.
The homicide must cease, and with the object of bringing this homicide to an end, I shall keep watch, and every man who dares to spread dangerious errors regarding puerperal fever will find me an active opponent.
Postpartum/puerperal psychosis affects mothers in approx 1 in 1000 births, or around 1 in 300 where an emergency C section was performed which was the case here; C section is of course pretty routine but in this case was complicated by an ileus.
Puerperal definitions
relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth