puerperium

名词 n.
/ˌpju.əˈpɪə.ɹi.əm/    /ˌpju.ɚˈpɪɹ.i.əm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
    — As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.

词形变化

puerperia plural

词源

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).
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