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heart surgery
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  heart surgery - any surgical procedure involving the heartsurgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing 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 |
TranslationsEncyclopediaSeeheartheart surgery
heart surgery Surgical procedures performed on the heart and its blood vessels. They include heart valve stretching (valvotomy), valve replacement, coronary artery BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY, CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS operations, HEART REDUCTION, HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT, the closure of ‘holes in the heart’ (congenital septal defects) and PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, the correction of other congenital abnormalities and HEART TRANSPLANTATION.heart surgery
Related to heart surgery: open heart surgeryWords related to heart surgerynoun any surgical procedure involving the heartRelated Words- surgical operation
- surgical procedure
- surgical process
- surgery
- operation
- closed-heart surgery
- open-heart surgery
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