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PORT-ACCESS CORONARY BYPASS SURGERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("port-access coronary bypass surgery" is a kind of...):
closed-heart surgery (heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened))
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