puerperal fever

puerperal fever

English

Noun

puerperal fever (countable and uncountable, plural puerperal fevers)

1. (pathology) A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus.

Synonyms

• childbed fever
• sepsis puerperalis

Translations

fever due to infection of the uterus

Chinese: Mandarin: 產褥熱 (zh), 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