open-heart operation

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• open-heart surgery — open ,heart surgery noun uncount a medical operation on someone s heart in which their chest is cut open …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• open-heart surgery — n [U] a medical operation in which doctors operate on someone s heart, while a machine keeps the ↑patient s blood flowing …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• open-heart surgery — noun heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired • Hypernyms: ↑heart surgery • Hyponyms: ↑coronary… …   Useful english dictionary

• open heart surgery — operation during which the patient s heart lies exposed …   English contemporary dictionary

• open-heart surgery — UK / US noun [uncountable] a medical operation on someone s heart in which their chest is cut open …   English dictionary

• open-heart surgery — noun (U) a medical operation in which doctors operate on someone s heart …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Mike Shaw (heart operation patient) — Michael Eugene Mike Shaw (born February 16, 1944) is known as the patient in the first successful open heart sugery of tetralogy of Fallot. The operation was performed by Doctor C. Walton Lillehei, the Father of open heart surgery , at the Heart… …   Wikipedia

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• open — openly, adv. openness, n. /oh peuhn/, adj. 1. not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night. 2. (of a door, gate, window sash, or the like) set so as to… …   Universalium

• heart surgery — noun any surgical procedure involving the heart • Hypernyms: ↑operation, ↑surgery, ↑surgical operation, ↑surgical procedure, ↑surgical process • Hyponyms: ↑closed heart surgery, ↑open heart surg …   Useful english dictionary

• open — 1. Not closed; exposed, said of a wound. 2. To enter or expose, as a wound or cavity. [A.S.] * * * open ō pən adj 1 a) not covered, enclosed, or scabbed over <an open lesion> <an open running ulcer> b) not involving or encouraging a… …   Medical dictionary