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Puerperal fever

noun
1.
Serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon.  Synonym: childbed fever.





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... fruit, who can doubt? His professional labors are perhaps least known of any of his various activities, but they were many and varied, and not barren of good results. As a single illustration, take his treatise upon "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever," concerning which ...
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Words linked to "Puerperal fever" :   septicemia, septicaemia, blood poisoning, childbed fever


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