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PUERPERAL FEVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon
Synonyms:
childbed fever; puerperal fever
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("puerperal fever" is a kind of...):
blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)
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