caesarean
adjective/sɪˈzeəriən/
/sɪˈzeriən/
(also caesarian)
(both British English) (US English cesarean)
- by or connected with a caesarean section (= a medical operation in which an opening is cut in a woman’s body in order to take out a baby)
- a caesarean birth/delivery
Word Originearly 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a supporter of an emperor or imperial system): from Latin Caesareus ‘of Caesar’ + -an.
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