| vaginal birth after cesarean | Delivery of an infant through the vagina in a female who has had a prior cesarean section. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| vaginal birth after cesarian section | It was once the rule that after a c-section, the next delivery also had to be by c-section. Now vaginal delivery after cesarian section (vbac) is frequently feasible. See: vbac. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cesarian section, vaginal birth after | It was once the rule that after a C-section, the next delivery also had to be by C-section. Now vaginal delivery after Cesarian section (VBAC) is frequently feasible. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cesarean section | A surgical procedure that involves the delivery of the foetus through an abdominal incision. C-sections account for about 1/5 of all births in the us. Indications include: failure to progress, foetal distress, cephalopelvic disproportion (baby's too big for birth canal), placenta previa, placental abruption, placental insufficiency, breech baby, active genital herpes, multiple gestation, preeclampsia and excessive scarring from previous surgeries. The average hospital stay is about 4 days. The maternal death rate with C-section is three times higher than with natural delivery. (27 Sep 1997) |
| cesarean section, repeat | Extraction of the foetus by abdominal hysterotomy anytime following a previous cesarean. (12 Dec 1998) |
| classical cesarean section | A cesarean section in which the uterus is entered through a vertical fundal incision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Latzko's cesarean section | A cesarean section in which the uterus is entered by paravesical blunt dissection without entering the peritoneal cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lower uterine segment cesarean section | A cesarean section in which the uterus is entered in its lower segment by a transperitoneal approach. (05 Mar 2000) |
| after damp | An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| after-nystagmus | Nystagmus occurring after the abrupt cessation of rotation in the opposite direction of the rotatory nystagmus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delayed coma after hypoxia | Coma that develops a few days to 3 weeks after an acute hypoxic insult; the latter was usually severe enough to cause an initial bout of coma, which cleared, and was followed by a transient interval of apparent normality. Synonym: severe postanoxic encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fluorescence recovery after photobleaching | Many fluorochromes are bleached by exposure to exciting light. If, for example: the cell surface is labelled with a fluorescent probe and an area bleached by laser illumination, then the bleached patch that starts off as a dark area will gradually recover fluorescence. The recovery is due to the re population of the area by unbleached molecules and diffusion of bleached molecules to other areas. The rate and extent of recovery are a measure of the fluidity of the membrane and the proportion of labelled molecules that are free to exchange with adjacent areas. The technique is usually applied to cell surface fluidity or viscosity measurements, but is also applicable to other structures. (18 Nov 1997) |
| cesarean | Denoting a cesarean section, which was included under lex cesarea, Roman law (715 B.C.); not because performed at the birth of Julius Caesar (100 B.C.). (05 Mar 2000) |
| cesarean hysterectomy | Cesarean section followed by hysterectomy. Synonym: Porro hysterectomy, Porro operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cesarean operation | See: cesarean section, cesarean hysterectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |