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CLOSED-HEART SURGERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("closed-heart surgery" is a kind of...):
heart surgery (any surgical procedure involving the heart)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closed-heart surgery"):
port-access coronary bypass surgery (heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine)
minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery (heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions)
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