| 单词 | childbed fever |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschildbed fever childbed fever n. now historical = puerperal fever n. at puerperal adj. Compounds; (also) an instance or case of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > puerperal sepsis or fever childbed fever1701 puerperal fever1716 puerperal sepsis1885 1701 tr. T. Willis Receipts Cure All Distempers i. 4 (heading) An excellent Mixture for Childbed Fevers, attended with a suppression of the Loches. 1777 J. Leake Med. Instr. Dis. Women (ed. 5) II. i. 33 (heading) History of the Child-bed Fever. 1825 Lancet 2 July 385/1 He would discard the term puerperal, or child-bed feever, altogether. 1848 C. D. Meigs Females & their Dis. xli. 596 That inflammation will determine in her the onset of child-bed fever. 1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors iv. 86 Semmelweis was on the verge of his great discovery that childbed fever was wound infection, blood-poisoning. 2003 J. Flanders Victorian House (2004) i. 20 Childbed fever (or puerperal fever, now simply septicaemia) was the most common cause of death in childbirth. < as lemmas |
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