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Caesarean
adjective
- of or relating to any of the Caesars, esp Julius Caesar
noun
- sometimes not capital surgery
- short for Caesarean section
- ( as modifier )
Caesarean operation
Caesarean birth
Other Words From
- post-Cae·sare·an adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of Caesarean1
Example Sentences
But had I needed an epidural, had something gone wrong and I needed a caesarean, that would have been OK, too.
He had threatened to stop examining her if she continued to refuse a caesarean section.
One Caesarean section: roughly $23,000, plus the additional cost of having 46 doctors and nurses in the room.
The higher clergy were more than ever immersed in affairs of state, “Caesarean” as Wycliffe would have called them.
It must have been the habitual temper of mind in any Periclean symposium or Caesarean salon.
She came back and told him they had decided they could not wait much longer, and would have to undertake a Caesarean.
The case is different from the ordinary caesarean section done because of a narrow pelvic bony girdle.
In the caesarean section the infant is delivered through an incision in the abdominal or uterine walls.
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