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OPEN-HEART SURGERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("open-heart surgery" is a kind of...):
heart surgery (any surgical procedure involving the heart)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "open-heart surgery"):
CABG; coronary artery bypass graft; coronary bypass; coronary bypass surgery (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)
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