puerperium

1. 1.

   time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved

   “a perinatologist cared for her during the puerperium”

   Broadertime period

Other forms of puerperium

plural

puerperiums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about puerperium

What does puerperium mean?

puerperium means "time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved".

How many syllables are in puerperium?

puerperium has 4 syllables: pu-er-pe-rium. The stress falls on "er".

Is puerperium a common word?

puerperium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.