Definition of Puerperae

1. puerpera [n] - See also: puerpera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puerperae

puellae publicae
puellile
puer
puerarin
puered
puericulture
puerile
puerilely
puerileness
puerilism
puerilisms
puerilities
puerility
puering
puerpera
puerperae (current term)
puerperal
puerperal fever
puerperal fevers
puerperia
puerperium
puerperous
puers
puff-leg
puff-legged
puff-legs
puff-pastry
puff adder
puff batter

Literary usage of Puerperae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes on obstetrics for the junior and senior classes, Northwestern by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1904)
"Nowadays, since we do not starve-the woman so much in the puerperium, these losses are not so marked, but the custom of feeding puerperae very lightly still ..."

2. The Practice of Obstetrics: Designed for the Use of Students and by James Clifton Edgar (1912)
"But if these factors alone were the occasion of a slow pulse, the latter should be common to all puerperae. The absence of constancy in this respect appears ..."

3. Metabolism and Practical Medicine by Karl Harko von Noorden, Carl von Noorden, Isaac Walker Hall (1907)
"These workers consider that puerperae generally consume a part of the absorbed milk-sugar, but that the more readily decomposed glucose " displaces the ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... (in some months three) out of every ten f the puerperae being carried out dead. ... had occasion 0 see at the post-mortem examinations of his puerperae. ..."

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