open-heart surgery
surgery performed on the exposed heart while a heart-lung machine pumps and oxygenates the blood and diverts it from the heart.
Origin of open-heart surgery
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How to use open-heart surgery in a sentence
“We can do anything here from open heart surgery to limb amputations,” he says.
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British Dictionary definitions for open-heart surgery
surgical repair of the heart during which the blood circulation is often maintained mechanically
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Scientific definitions for open-heart surgery
Surgery in which the thoracic cavity is opened to expose the heart and the blood is recirculated and oxygenated by a heart-lung machine.
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