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

Bacteriologists for years suspected streptococci, the great family of germs responsible for scarlet fever, septic sore throat, erysipelas, childbed fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

One out of every three women who entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too.

From Time Magazine Archive

As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero.

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