puerperal fever

English

Noun

puerperal fever (countable and uncountable, plural puerperal fevers)

1. (pathology, obstetrics) A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 344:

     It was the rise of penicillin, not improved hygiene, that finally conquered puerperal fever.

Synonyms

• childbed fever
• sepsis puerperalis

Translations

fever due to infection of the uterus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 產褥熱／产褥热 (zh) (chǎnrùrè)

• Czech: horečka omladnic
• Dutch: kraamvrouwenkoorts (nl) f, kraamkoorts f
• Finnish: lapsivuodekuume (fi)
• Hungarian: gyermekágyi láz
• Maori: mate kitakita pirau, mate kitakita whakapirau
• Romanian: febră puerperală (ro) f
• Russian: роди́льная горя́чка f (rodílʹnaja gorjáčka)
• Swedish: barnsängsfeber (sv) c, puerperalfeber (sv) c
• Ukrainian: поло́го́ва гаря́чка f (polóhóva harjáčka)