childbed fever

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. puerperal fever.

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Etymology

Origin of childbed fever

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Faced with a doctor-led maternity ward in which maternal deaths from the dreaded childbed fever were significantly higher than in the midwife-run clinic there, he racked his brain for clues as to why.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2020

Though doctors can cure a growing list of bacterial diseases�pneumonia, meningitis, streptococcic infections, erysipelas, childbed fever, gonorrhea, etc.�with sulfanilamide and other sulfa compounds, they have little biochemical understanding of how the drugs work.

From Time Magazine Archive

The doctor had cut his finger while dissecting a corpse; a post mortem convinced Semmelweis that his friend had died of childbed fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The humblest rickshaw coolie knows where to go to have his mucus-draining eyes treated, or who will help when his wife has childbed fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a large class of cases, however, the connection between childbed fever and sepsis has been deduced rather from analogy than direct proof.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various