HEART SURGERY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any surgical procedure involving the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("heart surgery" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heart 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)

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