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ANGIOPLASTY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("angioplasty" 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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb angioplasty

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 Context examples: 

Angioplasty is a procedure to restore blood flow through the artery.

(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

You have angioplasty in a hospital.

(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Doctors may use angioplasty to: • Reduce chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart • Minimize damage to heart muscle from a heart attack

(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)