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Puerperal

adjective

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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"Puerperal" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'Puerperal Fits'. Nature, proportions the power and resources of the mother to the wants of her offspring. In her wild undomesticated state she is able to suckle her progeny to the full time; but, in the artificial state in which we have placed her, we shorten the ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

Words linked to "Puerperal" : childbirth, puerperium, puerpera