A surgical incision or Caesarean section; the medical procedure of cutting into the uterus to deliver a baby.
From Caesar + -tomy (suffix from Greek 'tomos' meaning 'cut'). The Greek medical suffix was added to the existing term for the surgical birth procedure.
Medical language combines Latin (Caesar) with Greek (-tomy) because Renaissance doctors used both languages—'caesarotomy' is basically a hybrid word showing how medicine inherited vocabulary from multiple ancient sources.
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