puerperae

Noun

puerpera (plural puerperas or puerperae)

1. A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.
   • I saw a very serious hemorrhage result from relaxation of the uterus on the eleventh day when the puerpera had been frightened by a domestic quarrel.1918, Joseph Bolivar De Lee, Principles and practice of obstetrics, page 813
2. (rare) A woman who has recently given birth.
   • An often proved Remedy to bring away what is, or should not be left in the Womb of a Puerpera, though it were Part of a dead Child.1731, Robert Boyle, Medicinal experiments, volume 3, page 6