cesarean section
Noun
Meaning
the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way)
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C-section
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caesarian delivery
cesarean delivery
cesarian section
abdominal delivery
caesarean delivery
childbirth
abdominal operation
surgical birth
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Antonyms
natural childbirth
vaginal birth
natural birth
birth through the vagina
unmedicated vaginal delivery
childbirth without medication
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Examples
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.