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ANGIOPLASTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("angioplasty" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb angioplasty
Context examples:
Angioplasty is a procedure to restore blood flow through the artery.
(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
You have angioplasty in a hospital.
(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Doctors may use angioplasty to: • Reduce chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart • Minimize damage to heart muscle from a heart attack
(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
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