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

1 sense of puerperium

Sense 1
puerperium -- (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")
       => time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")