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HEART SURGERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any surgical procedure involving the heart
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("heart surgery" 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heart surgery"):
closed-heart surgery (heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened))
open-heart surgery (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)
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