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Brewer's: Cæsarian Operation
or Cesarean Operation. The extraction of a child from the womb by cutting the abdomen (Latin, cæso, cut from the womb). Julius Caesar is said to have been thus brought into the world.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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