puerperal
- a relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth
- Holmes was noted professionally for his researches into puerperal fever.
- British researchers have also incriminated PPLO in puerperal fevers and fevers following gynecologic surgery.
- Among the diseases conquered by sulfanilamide are puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), gonorrhea, meningitis, and streptococcus sore throat.