CAESAREAN; CAESARIAN

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1 definition — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


a.

Of or pertaining to Cæsar or the Cæsars; imperial. Cæsarean section (Surg.), 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.


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