c-section

Questions about c-section

What does c-section mean?

c-section 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)".

How many syllables are in c-section?

c-section has 3 syllables: c-sec-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for c-section?

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 c-section a common word?

c-section is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.