caesarian

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I made my wife delay having a caesarian by four days so that I could be on call for the Obama legal team.

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  1. adjective Variant of cesarean.

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  • The fourth birth was a caesarian, and these donks never heard of a transverse. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • The last was the caesarian, four and a half kilos of lovely fat girl-child, they said. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • Francis's son had to be delivered by an emergency caesarian section. —  newsday.co.tt
  • "Her previous pregnancies ended with emergency caesarian sections," an insider tells OK!. —  Bumpshack.com
  • A baby boy died minutes after birth - because the hospital had no anaesthetist on duty for an emergency caesarian. —  Pirate's Cove
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