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puerperal psychosis

pu·er·per·al psy·cho·sis


noun 
Definition:
 
psychiatric disorder affecting some new mothers: a psychiatric disorder that may affect women in the first two weeks after giving birth. It may be depressive or schizophrenic and may involve false ideas concerning the baby.

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