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CAESAREAN DELIVERY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does caesarean delivery mean?

• CAESAREAN DELIVERY (noun)
The noun CAESAREAN DELIVERY has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: CAESAREAN DELIVERY used as a noun is very rare.

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• CAESAREAN DELIVERY (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

abdominal delivery; cesarian; cesarean section; cesarean delivery; cesarean; caesarian section; caesarian delivery; caesarian; caesarean section; caesarean delivery; caesarean; C-section; cesarian section

Hypernyms ("caesarean delivery" is a kind of...):

delivery; obstetrical delivery (the act of delivering a child)

Meronyms (parts of "caesarean delivery"):

hysterotomy (surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section))

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