childbed fever English

Meaning childbed fever meaning

What does childbed fever mean?

childbed fever

— noun (= puerperal fever) serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon

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puerperal fever