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puerperal fever
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Noun puerperal fever has 1 sense
- puerperal fever(n = noun.state) childbed fever - serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon; Array is a kind of blood poisoning, septicaemia, septicemia
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