Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PU-ER'PE-RAL
PU-ER-IL'I-TY, or PU'ER-ILE-NESSPU-ER'PER-OUS
PU-ER'PE-RAL, a. [L. puerpera, a lying-in-woman; puer, a boy, and pario, to bear.]
Pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.
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