childbed fever

noun Pathology.

puerperal fever.

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Nearby words

child-directed speech, child-free, child-resistant, childbearing, childbed, childbed fever, childbirth, childcare, childe, childe harold's pilgrimage, childe roland to the dark tower came

Origin of childbed fever

First recorded in 1925–30

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Medicine definitions for childbed fever

childbed fever

[ chīld′bĕd′ ]

n.

puerperal fever

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