Category: P

A psychiatric disorder that some women may experience in the first two weeks after giving birth. The medical name for a severe form of postpartum depression. A profound mental disorder that emerges following childbirth. Typically, symptoms of psychosis manifest within two weeks of giving birth, encompassing confusion, mood fluctuations, along with disrupted thinking and conduct.…

An illness of a baby or its mother resulting from or associated with childbirth. A pathological condition accompanying childbirth.  

An infection of the uterus and genital tract after the birth of a baby, which is more common in women who have had a caesarean section. It causes a high fever, and occasionally sepsis, which can be fatal and was commonly so in the past.  

A woman who has recently given birth, or is giving birth, and whose uterus is still distended. A woman who has recently given birth and whose womb has not yet returned to its normal nonpregnant dimensions.  

An operation to anaesthetise the pudendum during childbirth. Form of regional anesthesia in which a local anesthetic agent is used to anesthesize the pudendal nerves in the region of the vulva, labia majora, and perirectal area to ease discomfort during childbirth. An injection of anesthesia given in the vagina that relieves pain during childbirth. The…

Referring to the pudendum. Pertaining to female external genitalia.  

A consultant who has special training in public health medicine.  

The branch of medicine concerned with health and disease in populations, with the responsibilities of monitoring health, identification of health needs, development of policies which promote health and evaluation of health services.  

In the UK, a former service of the NHS which detected, diagnosed and monitored suspected cases of infectious disease in a countrywide network of laboratories. A statutory organization that is part of the NHS. It comprises ten laboratory groups and two centres in the UK, with central coordination from PHLS headquarters. The service provides diagnostic-testing…

A bone forming the front part of the pelvis. Pubes, one of the three bones that make up the innominate (hip) bone on each side of the body (the other two bones being the ilium and ischium); the two pubes meet at the front of the pelvis. A bone forming the lower and anterior part…