caesarean
noun /sɪˈzeəriən/
/sɪˈzeriən/
(also caesarian)
(both British English) (US English cesarean)
[countable, uncountable]- a caesarean section (= a medical operation in which an opening is cut in a woman’s body in order to take out a baby)
- an emergency caesarean
- She had to have a caesarean.
- The baby was born by caesarean.
Wordfinder- birth
- breech birth
- caesarean section
- contraction
- deliver
- induce
- labour
- midwife
- obstetrics
- umbilical cord
Word Originearly 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a supporter of an emperor or imperial system): from Latin Caesareus ‘of Caesar’ + -an.