PUERPERIUM
Dictionary entry overview: What does puerperium mean? • PUERPERIUM (noun)
The noun PUERPERIUM has 1 sense:
1. time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved
Familiarity information: PUERPERIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PUERPERIUM (noun)
Meaning:
Time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
a perinatologist cared for her during the puerperium
Hypernyms ("puerperium" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
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