<P> On March 5, 2000, in Mexico, Inés Ramírez performed a Caesarean section on herself and survived, as did her son, Orlando Ruiz Ramírez . </P> <P> The patron saint of Caesarean section is Caesarius of Africa, a young deacon martyred at Terracina, who has replaced and Christianized the pagan figure of Caesar . The martyr (Saint Cesareo in Italian) is invoked for the good success of this surgical procedure . </P> <P> The Roman Lex Regia (royal law), later the Lex Caesarea (imperial law), of Numa Pompilius (715--673 BC), required the child of a mother dead in childbirth to be cut from her womb . There was a cultural taboo that mothers not be buried pregnant, that may have reflected a way of saving some fetuses . Roman practice requiring a living mother to be in her tenth month of pregnancy before resorting to the procedure, reflecting the knowledge that she could not survive the delivery . Speculation that the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C - section is apparently false . Although Caesarean sections were performed in Roman times, no classical source records a mother surviving such a delivery . As late as the 12th century, scholar and physician Maimonides expresses doubt over the possibility of a woman's surviving this procedure and again falling pregnant . The term has also been explained as deriving from the verb caedere, "to cut", with children delivered this way referred to as caesones . Pliny the Elder refers to a certain Julius Caesar (an ancestor of the famous Roman statesman) as ab utero caeso, "cut from the womb" giving this as an explanation for the cognomen "Caesar" which was then carried by his descendants . Nonetheless, even if the etymological hypothesis linking the caesarean section to Julius Caesar is a false etymology, it has been widely believed . For example, the Oxford English Dictionary defines Caesarean birth as "the delivery of a child by cutting through the walls of the abdomen when delivery cannot take place in the natural way, as was done in the case of Julius Caesar". Merriam - Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition) leaves room for etymological uncertainty with the phrase, "from the legendary association of such a delivery with the Roman cognomen Caesar" </P> <P> Some link with Julius Caesar or with Roman emperors exists in other languages as well . For example, the modern German, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish and Hungarian terms are respectively Kaiserschnitt, keisersnitt, kejsersnit, keizersnede, kejsarsnitt, sezaryen and császármetszés (literally: "emperor's cut"). The German term has also been imported into Japanese (帝王 切開 teiōsekkai) and Korean (제왕 절개 jewang jeolgae), both literally meaning "emperor incision". Similarly, in western Slavic (Polish) cięcie cesarskie, (Czech) císařský řez and (Slovak) cisársky rez means "emperor's cut", whereas the south Slavic term is Serbian царски рез and Slovenian cárski réz, literally tzar's cut . The Russian term kesarevo secheniye (Кесарево сечение késarevo sečénije) literally means Caesar's section . The Arabic term (ولادة قيصرية wilaada qaySaríyya) also means "Caesarean birth ." The Hebrew term ניתוח קיסרי (nitúakh Keisári) translates literally as Caesarean surgery . In Romania and Portugal, it is usually called cesariana, meaning from (or related to) Caesar . </P>

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