what does open-heart surgery mean?
OPEN-HEART SURGERY as NOUN
- 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
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