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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