caesarean section

Questions about caesarean section

What does caesarean section mean?

caesarean 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)".

What is another word for caesarean 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 caesarean section a common word?

caesarean section 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.