caesareannoun [ C or U ]
mainly UK US usually cesarean uk/sɪˈzeə.ri.ən/us/sɪˈzer.i.ən/also caesarean sectionan operation in which a woman's uterus is cut open to allow a baby to be born:
I had to have a caesarean.
The baby was born by caesarean.
a caesarean birth/delivery
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Obstetrics: birth
- antenatal
- birth defect
- birth rate
- born
- born
- C-section
- childbirth
- contraction
- delivery
- give birth idiom
- induce
- maternity ward
- midwifery
- obstetric
- posh
- postnatal
- puerperal
- reborn
- rooming-in
- section
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