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词汇 childbed-fever
释义 childbed fever
noun[ U ]
 old-fashioneduk /ˌtʃaɪld.bed ˈfiː.vər/ us /ˌtʃaɪld.bed ˈfiː.vɚ/
a severe infection of the inside of the uterus that affects women after they have given birth to a baby, caused by bacteria:
A frequent cause of death in young mothers was childbed fever.
He demonstrated that childbed fever was caused by doctors not washing their hands.
Over and over women delivered of healthy infants died in agony of the mysterious childbed fever.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, vast numbers of postpartum women died from a disease known as puerperal fever or childbed fever.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fevers & infectious diseases
afebrile
ague
anaplasmosis
anti-malaria
anti-malarial
delirious
ehrlichiosis
enteric fever
Epstein-Barr virus
EVD
feverishly
mumps
rubella
scarlet fever
sleeping sickness
staphylococcus
Staphylococcus infection
toxoplasmosis
typhoid fever
variola

Synonym


puerperal fever
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