Caesarean section
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cesarean section also caesarean section

A surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus, performed to deliver a fetus.

[From the traditional belief that Julius Caesar (or his eponymous ancestor) was born by this operation.]

Caesarean section

(Medicine / Surgery) surgical incision through the abdominal and uterine walls in order to deliver a baby

[from the belief that Julius Caesar was so delivered, the name allegedly being derived from caesus, past participle of caedere to cut]

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caesarean 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)

abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section

obstetrical delivery, delivery - the act of delivering a child

hysterotomy - surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section)

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Caesarean section (redirected from Vaginal birth after caesarean)

Caesarean section
(redirected from Vaginal birth after caesarean)