surgical repair of the heart during which the blood circulation is often maintained mechanically
open-heart surgery in American English
(ˈoʊpənˈhɑrt)
surgery involving some type of repair directly to the exposed heart or coronary arteries, etc., during which the blood is diverted and circulated and oxygenated by mechanical means
Examples of 'open-heart surgery' in a sentence
open-heart surgery
I took his point, but open-heart surgery was hardly the sort of thing you practised on your kitchen table.