puerperium

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

puerperia

1.
(obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.

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ine-pro Borrowed from Latin puerperium (childbed, childbirth), from puerpera + -ium, from puerperus (parturient, bringing forth children), from puer + pariō + -us.