Caesarean section

A caesarean section (cesarean section AE), or C-section, is a form of childbirth in which a surgical incision is made through a mother's abdomen (laparotomy) and uterus (hysterotomy) to deliver one or more babies. It is usually performed when a vaginal delivery would lead to medical complications.

Caesareans in fiction

The first caesaren section according to mythology was performed by Apollo on his lover Coronis when he delivered Asklepios.

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Apollo - Coronis - Asklepios

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A Caesarean section appears in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Macbeth faces a prophesied enemy not of woman born, an impossibility but that MacDuff was "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd," the product of a caesarean section birth (not unlike Robert II of Scotland).

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Shakespeare - Play - Macbeth - Robert II of Scotland

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The stillborn child of character Catherine Barkley is delivered by caesarean section in the Hemingway novel A Farewell to Arms.

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Stillborn - Hemingway - Novel - A Farewell to Arms

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