C-SECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does C-section mean? 

• C-SECTION (noun)
  The noun C-SECTION 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: C-SECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• C-SECTION (noun)

Sense 1

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

Hypernyms ("C-section" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "C-section"):

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

 Context examples 

A Cesarean section (C-section) is surgery to deliver a baby.

(Cesarean Section, NIH)

These bacteria were underrepresented in the C-section–delivered infants that weren’t swabbed with vaginal fluids.

(Restoring microbes in infants born by cesarean section, NIH)

The researchers found that the microbiomes of the C-section–delivered infants exposed to vaginal fluids resembled those of vaginally delivered infants, especially during the first week of life.

(Restoring microbes in infants born by cesarean section, NIH)

For the procedure, a sterile gauze pad was incubated in the mother’s birth canal an hour before the C-section.

(Restoring microbes in infants born by cesarean section, NIH)

A research team from NYU Langone Medical Center and Icahn School of Medicine in Mount Sinai, New York, set out to determine whether they could alter the microbiota of babies born by C-section by exposing them to maternal vaginal fluids at birth.

(Restoring microbes in infants born by cesarean section, NIH)