Usually means: Infection following childbirth causing fever.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word puerperal fever:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. puerperal fever: Merriam-Webster
  2. puerperal fever: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. puerperal fever: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. puerperal fever: Collins English Dictionary
  5. puerperal fever: Vocabulary.com
  6. puerperal fever: Wiktionary
  7. puerperal fever: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. puerperal fever: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. puerperal fever: Dictionary.com
  10. Puerperal (childbed) fever, Puerperal fever: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. puerperal fever: Rhymezone
  12. puerperal fever: FreeDictionary.org
  13. puerperal fever: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. puerperal fever: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puerperal fever: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puerperal fever: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. puerperal fever: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fever, puerperal, Puerperal fever: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. puerperal fever: Medical dictionary
  6. Fever, puerperal, Puerperal fever: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Puerperal fever, Puerperal fever, Puerperal fever: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See puerperal_fevers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (puerperal fever)

noun:  (pathology, obstetrics) A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus.

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