closed-heart surgery

Noun
  1. Heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) (synset 100676600)
    is a type of: heart surgery - any surgical procedure involving the heart
    subtypes:
    • port-access coronary bypass surgery - heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine
    • minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery - heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions

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