OPEN-HEART SURGERY as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open and surgery to fix a heart valve or repair a coronary artery is performed while the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine
    Hypernyms(s) open-heart surgery is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s)