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Eleven days after Anne’s execution, Henry married his third wife, Jane Seymour, who gave birth to a prince, the future Edward VI, before dying of childbed fever in October 1537.
—V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
Once handwashing protocols were implemented in the Austrian hospital, the rates of women dying from childbed fever plummeted.
—Kelly Lambert, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020
Semmelweis got some things right, including his idea that something external caused childbed fever: the cause would turn out to be Streptococcus bacteria.
—Emily Sohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020
Semmelweis noticed that deaths from childbed fever, also known as puerperal fever, were much less frequent in the ward supervised solely by midwives.
—Emily Sohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020
No one could figure out why so many women and children were dying from puerperal fever—commonly known as childbed fever.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 18 May 2018
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First Known Use
1701, in the meaning defined above
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“Childbed fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/childbed%20fever. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
childbed fever
nounMore from Merriam-Webster on childbed fever
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