Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun port-access_coronary_bypass_surgery

1 sense of port-access coronary bypass surgery

Sense 1
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)
       => closed-heart surgery -- (heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened))