Puerperium
101Tetanus — An often fatal infectious disease caused by the bacteria Clostridium tetani (C. tetani) which usually enters the body through a puncture, cut, or open wound. Tetanus is characterized by profoundly painful spasms of muscles, including locking of… …
102erysipelas — A specific, acute, superficial cutaneous cellulitis caused by β hemolytic streptococci and characterized by hot, red, edematous, brawny, and sharply defined eruptions; usually accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms. [G., fr. erythros, red… …
103puerperal — Relating to the puerperium, or period after childbirth. SYN: puerperant (1). * * * pu·er·per·al pyü ər p(ə )rəl adj of, relating to, or occurring during childbirth or the period immediately following <puerperal infection> <puerperal… …
104syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …
105Cephalopelvic disproportion — Classification and external resources ICD 10 O33.9 ICD 9 653.4 …
106Cervical pregnancy — Classification and external resources ICD 10 O00.8 ICD 9 633.80 Cervical pregnancy refers t …
107Childbirth and obstetrics in antiquity — Traditionally obstetrics is defined as the surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, although in Antiquity surgical intervention did not exist. Without the presence of… …
108Christine Dean — Professor Christine Dean BA. MD. FRCPsych is a London psychiatrist currently consulting at the Priory Hospital Roehampton, the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM), The Helen Bamber Foundation, in her private practice and as a… …
109Chronic deciduitis — Classification and external resources Micrograph of a chronic deciduitis, showing the characteristic plasma cells. H E stain. Chronic deciduitis, also plasma cell decid …
110Hypercoagulability in pregnancy — Classification and external resources ICD 10 O22.9, O99.1 ICD 9 …
