PUERPERA Definition & Meaning

puerpera

[ pyoo-ur-per-uh ]

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noun

Obstetrics.

plural puerperae

a woman who has recently given birth to a child.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of puerpera¹

< Latin: woman in labor; akin to puerperus; puerperium

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Juvenal has some well-known and emphatic lines on the subject:— “Sed jacet aurato vix ulla puerpera lecto; Tantum artes hujus, tantum medicamina possunt, Quæ steriles facit, atque homines in ventre necandos Conducit.”

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Nescio quo interea multum tibi murmure nota est: Nempe sed hoc poteras murmur amare tamen.10 Tandem ecce, heu simili de prole puerpera! tandem Hoc tenero tenera est pignore facta parens.

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Phoenix alumna mortis, Quam mira tua puerpera!

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Nempe illa nunquam pignore simplici Sibive soli facta puerpera est: Partu repercusso, vel absens, Perpetuos procreat gemellos.

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Possit Camaenas, non sine numine, Lassare nostras diva puerpera, Et gaudiis siccare totam Perpetuis Heliconis undam.

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