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caesarean section
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun caesarean section has 1 sense
- caesarean section(n = noun.act) abdominal delivery, c-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section - the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way); Array is a kind of delivery, obstetrical delivery
has parts: hysterotomy
CIDE DICTIONARY
caesarean section, n.
the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation; -- called also caesarean . [1913 Webster]
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