Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun puerperal_fever

1 sense of puerperal fever

Sense 1
puerperal fever, childbed fever -- (serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon)
       => blood poisoning, septicemia, septicaemia -- (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)