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caesarean delivery

n. the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) [syn: cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section, caesarean section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian, caesarean, abdominal delivery]

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It had by-products which he merely noted and filed for reference - such as the reason why Rudi's creativity gave him agony (his deep unconscious saw it as parturition, and that brings pain), and the reason why he chose to attempt suicide by hara-kiri (it represented a Caesarean delivery on the cross-identity level of his mind).