open-heart surgery
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1. heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | heart surgery, |
| definition | : | any surgical procedure involving the heart (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | cabg, coronary artery bypass graft, coronary bypass, coronary bypass surgery, |
| definition | : | open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart (noun.act) |
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