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    CLOSED-HEART SURGERY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)play

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

    heart surgery (any surgical procedure involving the heart)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closed-heart surgery"):

    port-access coronary bypass surgery (heart 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)

    minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery (heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions)

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