puˈerpery rare.
Also in Lat. form puerˈperium.
[ad. L. puerperi-um, f. puerper-us: see puerperal.]
Child-birth; ‘confinement’.
| 1602 W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 60 As there is one conception of two twinnes, so there is one puerperie, though it bee finished at diuers times. 1652 J. Mayer Comm. Prophets 56 [They] make it plain that such a puerpery was to be expected. 1890 Lancet 5 Apr. 750/2 Illustrating the clinical history of nephritis in pregnancy and puerpery. |