Usually means: Period following childbirth, adjusting physically.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. postpartum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. postpartum: Merriam-Webster
  3. postpartum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. postpartum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. postpartum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. postpartum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Postpartum, postpartum: Wordnik
  8. postpartum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. postpartum: Wiktionary
  10. postpartum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. postpartum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. postpartum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. postpartum: Dictionary.com
  14. postpartum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Postpartum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. postpartum: Rhymezone
  17. postpartum: FreeDictionary.org
  18. postpartum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. postpartum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. postpartum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. postpartum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Postpartum: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  7. postpartum: Medical dictionary
  8. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Postpartum: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  11. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  12. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. postpartum: A Word A Day

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (postpartum)

adjective:  (of a mother, a symptom, a diagnosis or treatment, etc) After giving birth (often defined as within 30 days after childbirth).
adverb:  After giving birth.
noun:  The period immediately following childbirth.
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of postpartum depression. [(psychiatry) Depression experienced by a parent, usually the mother, after childbirth.]

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