p 3 u 1 e 1 r 1 p 3 e 1 r 1 i 1 u 1 m 3
10 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved
originBorrowed from Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), from puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) + -ium (nominal suffix), from puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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