cesarean
noun/sɪˈzeəriən/
/sɪˈzeriən/
(also cesarian (both US English), British English usually caesarean)
[countable, uncountable]- a cesarean section (= a medical operation in which an opening is cut in a woman’s body in order to take out a baby)
- She had to have an emergency cesarean.
- The baby was born by cesarean.
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