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单词 puerperal fever
释义

puerperal fever

noun

: an abnormal condition that results from infection of the placental site following delivery or abortion and is characterized in mild form by fever but in serious cases the infection may spread through the uterine wall or pass into the bloodstream

called also childbed fever, puerperal sepsis

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web This changed when Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor working in Austria, sought to find the cause behind the high number of new mothers who were contracting puerperal fever. Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2022 In the Vienna General Hospital, where Semmelweis worked, puerperal fever was especially common in the maternity ward where male doctors worked. Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2022 In 1847, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis could not convince his fellow doctors in Vienna to wash their hands before delivering babies as a way to prevent often fatal cases of puerperal fever in new mothers. David Tuller, STAT, 17 Nov. 2020 And Semmelweis himself could never completely eliminate cases of puerperal fever, even when his protocols were strictly enforced. Lindsey Fitzharris, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2020 Semmelweis noticed that the man’s symptoms were remarkably similar to those of women suffering from puerperal fever. Lindsey Fitzharris, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2020 Semmelweis noticed that deaths from childbed fever, also known as puerperal fever, were much less frequent in the ward supervised solely by midwives. Emily Sohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020 Within 11 days of Mary’s birth in London in 1797, however, Wollstonecraft lay dead of puerperal fever, leaving Godwin on his own to raise the new baby and her half-sister, Fanny (Wollstonecraft’s daughter by a previous lover). Elizabeth Lowry, WSJ, 1 June 2018 No one could figure out why so many women and children were dying from puerperal fever—commonly known as childbed fever. Michael Harriot, The Root, 18 May 2018 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1716, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

puerperal fever

noun

: an abnormal condition that results from infection (as by streptococci) of the placental site following delivery or abortion and is characterized in mild form by fever of not over 100.4°F (38.0°C) but may progress to a localized endometritis or spread through the uterine wall and develop into peritonitis or pass into the bloodstream and produce sepsis

called also childbed fever, puerperal sepsis

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