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Puerperal fever

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon wordnet

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