PUERPERAL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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

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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)

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