abdominal delivery

Questions about abdominal delivery

What does abdominal delivery mean?

abdominal delivery means "the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way)".

What is another word for abdominal delivery?

Close synonyms include cesarean delivery, caesarean delivery, caesarian delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abdominal delivery a common word?

abdominal delivery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.