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open-heart surgery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun open-heart surgery has 1 sense
- open-heart surgery(n = noun.act) - 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; is a kind of heart surgery
has particulars: cabg, coronary artery bypass graft, coronary bypass, coronary bypass surgery
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