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Title

Post-Partum: Key words

Description

Ass. Clinical Sciences

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Subject

Health Care

Level

Professional

Created

07/24/2013

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Term

Discharge of blood, mucus and tissue from the uterus after delivery

Definition

Lochia

Term

7 week period following expulsion of the fetus and placenta

Definition

Puerperium

Term

Temperature elevation > 100.40F [380C] in the puerperium

Definition

Puerperal fever

Term

Blood-borne infection in the puerperium

Definition

Puerperal sepsis

Term

Pituitary infarction following severe postpartum hemorrhage

Definition

Sheehan’s syndrome