HyperDic: closed-heart_surgery

English > 1 sense of the expression closed-heart surgery:
NOUNactclosed-heart surgeryheart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)
English > closed-heart surgery: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaningheart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened).
Narrowerminimally invasive coronary bypass surgeryheart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions
port-access coronary bypass surgeryheart 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
Broaderheart surgeryAny surgical procedure involving the heart

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