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View synonyms for Caesarean

Caesarean

or Cae·sar·i·an

[ si-zair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars:

    a Caesarean conquest.



noun

  1. (sometimes lowercase) Cesarean.

Caesarean

adjective

  1. of or relating to any of the Caesars, esp Julius Caesar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. sometimes not capital surgery
    1. ( as modifier )

      Caesarean operation

      Caesarean birth

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • post-Cae·sare·an adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Caesarean1

1520–30; < Latin Caesare ( us ) of Caesar + -an
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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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