puerperium
Meanings
Plural: puerperia
Noun
- time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved
- "a perinatologist cared for her during the puerperium"
- The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), from puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) + -ium (nominal suffix), from puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Scrabble Score: 16
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Words With Friends Score: 21
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