Likely corruption of the Latin phrase a caesō mātris uterō (“[born] from a cut in the mother’s womb”), supposedly the origin of Caesar's name. More at Caesar, at caedō, and at Caesarean section § Etymology.
Caesarean section (countable and uncountable, plural Caesarean sections)
- Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.
- Synonyms: Caesarean, Cesarean, cesarean, C-section
- Antonyms: vaginal delivery, natural childbirth
incision in the womb
- Afrikaans: keisersnee
- Arabic: وِلَادَة قَيْصَرِيَّة (ar) f (wilāda qayṣariyya)
- Armenian: կեսարյան հատում (hy) (kesaryan hatum)
- Azerbaijani: qeysər kəsiyi
- Belarusian: ке́сарава сячэ́ньне n (kjésarava sjačénʹnje)
- Bulgarian: це́зарово сече́ние n (cézarovo sečénie)
- Catalan: cesària (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 剖腹產/剖腹产 (zh) (pōufùchǎn), 剖宮產/剖宫产 (zh) (pōugōngchǎn)
- Czech: císařský řez (cs) m
- Danish: kejsersnit (da) n
- Dutch: keizersnede (nl) m or f
- Estonian: keisrilõige
- Faroese: keisaraskurður m
- Finnish: keisarileikkaus (fi), sektio (fi)
- French: césarienne (fr) f
- Georgian: საკეისრო კვეთა (saḳeisro ḳveta)
- German: Kaiserschnitt (de) m
- Greek: καισαρική τομή f (kaisarikí tomí)
- Hungarian: császármetszés (hu)
- Icelandic: keisaraskurður (is) m
- Indonesian: bedah sesar
- Irish: gearradh Caesarach m
- Italian: cesareo m, taglio cesareo m
- Japanese: 帝王切開 (ja) (ていおうせっかい teiōsekkai), 帝切 (ていせつ, teisetsu), (from German) カイザー (ja) (kaizā), ていおうせっかい
- Korean: 제왕 절개 (jewang jeolgae)
- Latvian: ķeizargrieziens m
- Macedonian: царски рез m (carski rez), царски m (carski) (ellipsis)
- Manx: ruggyr Kaesaragh m
- Maori: whānautanga poka, whānau poka
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: keisersnitt n
- Nynorsk: keisarsnitt n
- Polish: cesarskie cięcie (pl) n, cesarka (pl) f
- Portuguese: cesariana (pt) f
- Romanian: cezariană (ro) f
- Russian: ке́сарево сече́ние (ru) n (késarevo sečénije), ке́сарево n (késarevo)
- Sicilian: cisàriu m, tagghiu cisàriu m
- Slovak: cisársky rez m
- Slovene: carski rez m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: naroźeńska operacija f
- Upper Sorbian: wurězanje dźěsća n
- Spanish: cesárea (es) f
- Swahili: upasuaji wa kujifungua
- Swedish: kejsarsnitt (sv) n
- Tagalog: sesaryan
- Turkish: sezaryen (tr)
- Ukrainian: ке́сарів ро́зтин m (késariv róztyn)
- Vietnamese: mổ lấy thai (vi)
- Welsh: toriad Cesaraidd m
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