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Puerperium vs Puerpera - What's the difference?

puerperium | puerpera |

As nouns the difference between puerperium and puerpera

is that puerperium is (obstetrics) the period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state while puerpera is (label) a woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.

puerperium

English

Noun

(puerperia)
  • (obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.
  • * 1921 , Robert Bing & Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of nervous diseases for students and practicing physicians: In Thirty Lectures , p84
    • As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium , excesses, have been brought forward.

    Related terms

    * antepartum * parous * postpartum * puerperal

    puerpera

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.
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  • (label) A woman who has recently given birth.
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