cesarean

Examples

• All

• An example of this trend is Brazil, with many hospitals exceeding a 95 percent Cesarean rate.

  Blog text (32)

• You're going to have a cesarean section under general anesthesia.

  The Paper (1994)

• We're gonna do a cesarean section now.

  The Paper (1994)

• A cesarean can be difficult.

  Predestination (2014)

• Was birth by cesarean section a really good idea?

  Fiction book (2001)

• But it could also be that she had a Cesarean.

  Jack Ensch: Hanoi Hilton POW (2016)

• If it were my wife, I would do a cesarean.

  A Farewell to Arms (1957)

• You need a cesarean section, as this is the quickest way to resolve it.

  Blog text (24)

• She'd been born by cesarean section after a long, unproductive labor.

  Fiction book (1999)

• She gave birth to her daughter by cesarean section after complications arose during labor.

Synonyms

C

C-section

vscesarean

• Specialized

41 3.4

A surgery to deliver a baby by making cuts in the mother's abdomen and womb

uses the full formal word instead of the abbreviated hyphenated form

C

caesarian section

vscesarean

• UK

2 3.7

An operation to deliver a baby by cutting the mother's belly and womb

uses the simpler e spelling rather than the ae variant

C

cesarean section

vscesarean

• Specialized

1 3.7

An operation to help a woman have a baby by making cuts in her belly and womb

is the same concept expressed in a single-word form

C

cesarean delivery

vscesarean

• Specialized

1 3.6

A birth by an operation where doctors cut the belly and womb

uses the other common naming order focusing on the single headword

A

abdominal delivery

vscesarean

• Specialized

3.6

A baby born by an operation through the mother's belly and womb

is the standard surgical term presented as a single-word form

C

Caesarian delivery

vscesarean

• UK

3.8

A birth by an operation that cuts the mother's lower belly and womb to take out the baby

uses the simpler e spelling instead of the ae form

C

cesarian

vscesarean

• Specialized

5.3

A medical operation to deliver a baby by cutting the mother's abdomen and womb

uses the widely accepted vowel arrangement for the same word

Compounds

C

cesarean section

• Specialized

1 3.7

An operation to help a woman have a baby by making cuts in her belly and womb

C

cesarean delivery

• Specialized

1 3.6

A birth by an operation where doctors cut the belly and womb

Surface Forms

Etymology