産さん褥じょく熱ねつ

noun

puerperal fever; childbed fever

Medical term for a postpartum infection causing fever, historically a major cause of maternal death. Now rare in modern clinical settings due to improved hygiene.

• 19世せい紀きには産さん褥じょく熱ねつで多おおくの産さん婦ぷが亡なくなった。

  In the 19th century, many women died of puerperal fever.