Wondering how to use Puerperal in a sentence? Below are 6 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as parturition or birth.
Puerperal in a sentence
Puerperal meaning
- Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also
- Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also:
- Of, pertaining to, or associated with the peripartum period including childbirth.
Synonyms of Puerperal
Using Puerperal
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also | Of, pertaining to, or associated with the puerperium (the first month of postpartum), or, sometimes also: | Of, pertaining to, or associated with the peripartum period including childbirth.
- Useful related words include: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing.
- In the example corpus, puerperal often appears in combinations such as: puerperal fever, of puerperal.
Context around Puerperal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Puerperal
- In this selection, "puerperal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, infection, infected, investigated, fever, sepsis and childbed stand out and add context to how "puerperal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include became infected puerperal childbed fever and cause of puerperal fever worldwide. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "puerperal" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with puerperal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ignaz Semmelweis investigated puerperal fever and he discovered how it was caused. (12 words)
She had excessive bleeding after delivery and developed infection (puerperal sepsis) and acute kidney failure. (15 words)
Jane died of puerperal fever only a few days after the birth, leaving Henry devastated. (15 words)
Although the delivery seemed to go well initially, the placenta broke apart during the birth and became infected; puerperal (childbed) fever was a common and often fatal occurrence in the eighteenth century. (32 words)
His mother died of puerperal fever when he was five years old and shortly thereafter his father was expelled from the Society of Friends for marrying a non-Quaker. (29 words)
GAS is an important cause of puerperal fever worldwide, causing serious infection and, if not promptly diagnosed and treated, death in newly delivered mothers. (24 words)
Example sentences (6)
She had excessive bleeding after delivery and developed infection (puerperal sepsis) and acute kidney failure.
Although the delivery seemed to go well initially, the placenta broke apart during the birth and became infected; puerperal (childbed) fever was a common and often fatal occurrence in the eighteenth century.
GAS is an important cause of puerperal fever worldwide, causing serious infection and, if not promptly diagnosed and treated, death in newly delivered mothers.
His mother died of puerperal fever when he was five years old and shortly thereafter his father was expelled from the Society of Friends for marrying a non-Quaker.
Ignaz Semmelweis investigated puerperal fever and he discovered how it was caused.
Jane died of puerperal fever only a few days after the birth, leaving Henry devastated.
Common combinations with puerperal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- puerperal fever 5×
- of puerperal 4×