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Childbed fever (health)


Fever due to an infection usually of the placental site within the uterus. The fever is also called Childbirth fever or puerperal fever. If the infection involves the bloodstream, it constitutes puerperal sepsis. In Latin a "puerpera" is a woman in Childbirth since "puer" means child and "parere" means to give birth. The puerperium is the time immediately after the delivery of a baby.





thermochemistry (medicine)


thermochemistry


That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

Origin: Thermo- + chemistry.

Source: Websters Dictionary