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Caesarean [Cesarean] section.
Incision through the abdominal and uterine walls for delivery of a fetus.

Also known as "an abdominal delivery". There are claims that Gaius Julius Caesar was delivered by such an operation, but evidence disputes such a claim. Fact: the first known successful Caesarean section was recorded in Pavia, Italy, April, 1876, from a Julie Covallini. Fact: although the operation was occasionally used in ancient times, the Caesarean section usually resulted in death for both the child and the mother. There were some occasions when the child survived, but the mother inevitably perished.

Caesar's mother, Aurelia, lived to be at least seventy years old and was apparently in good health up until the time of her death. This would suggest that she never had such a deadly operation.

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Caesarean Section
(Caesarean Surgery or Cesarean Surgery)
choledocho-, choledoch- +
(Greek: choledochos, from chole, "bile" + dechomai, "to receive"; the common bile duct or tube; conveying bile; containing bile, which is a yellow-green fluid that is made by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and passes through the common bile duct into the first section of the small intestine or duodenum where it helps to digest fat)
Roads That Led to Rome, Part I, Section 1
(The Roads That Led to Rome by Victor W. Von Hagen)
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sec-, seg-, -sect, -section, -sectional
(Latin: to cut)
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Confusing Words: Units Listed, Section A
Lists of confusing words that are clarified with examples.
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electron-multiplier section
A section of an electron tube in which an electron current is amplified by one or more successive dynode states.

A dynode is an electrode whose primary function is the secondary emission of electrons which are used in multiplier phototubes and some types of television camera tubes.

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gamma cross section
The cross section for absorption or scattering of gamma rays by a nucleus or atom.
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Ideas and Insights Speech, Section 1
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ionization cross section
1. The cross section for a particle or photon to undergo a collision with an atom, and so removing or adding one or more electrons to the atom.
2. An area in which the probability that an atom or ion will undergo ionization when it collides with a particle or photon of sufficient energy is measured.
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stratigraphical section (s) (noun), stratigraphical sections (pl)
A local geological column, or any sequence of rock units or formations, that are found at or under the surface in a particular region: Linda found an article about a stratigraphical section that was discovered in her area which depicted certain rock layers and explained the process of the layering itself.
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Computerized Axial Tomography, CAT, or Computed Tomography, CT Terms +
(a radiographic technique that produces an image of a detailed cross section of bodily tissue using a narrow collimated beam of x-rays that rotates in a full arc around a patient to image the body in cross-sectional slices)
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Caesarean Section
The Caesarean Surgery or Cesarean Surgery unit.
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caesarean section
A neighborhood in Rome.
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Cesarean section
A medical procedure in which a baby is surgically removed from its mother's uterus.
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conic section (s) (noun), conic sections (pl)
One one of the four clear-cut shapes that are the intersections of a cone possessing a plane: The conic sections are the circle, the ellipse, the hyperbola, and the parabola.

Mathematically, the geometric shapes are obtained by slicing a cone at different angles relative to the base of the cone.

A circle is formed by slicing the cone parallel to its base, an ellipse by slicing at any angle less than that of the side of the cone relative to the base, and a parabola by slicing parallel to the side of the cone.

A hyperbola is formed by cutting the cone at an angle steeper than that of the side. To a good approximation, all celestial bodies within the solar system follow orbits which can be represented by conic sections.

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