m. de bakey

noun

Michael Ellis, 1908–2008, U.S. physician: pioneer in heart surgery.

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De Bakey De Ba·key (də bā'kē), Michael Ellis. Born 1908.

American heart surgeon who implanted the first totally artificial heart in a human (1966).

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