open-heart surgery

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Noun open-heart surgery has 1 sense

open-heart surgery - heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open and surgery to fix a heart valve or repair a coronary artery is performed while the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine
--₁ is a kind of heart surgery
--₁ has particulars:
coronary bypass, coronary bypass surgery, coronary artery bypass graft, CABG

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