puerperium
名词 n.
英 /ˌpju.əˈpɪə.ɹi.əm/
美 /ˌpju.ɚˈpɪɹ.i.əm/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
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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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