WordNet
n. open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart [syn: coronary bypass surgery, coronary artery bypass graft, CABG]
Usage examples of "coronary bypass".
Godin had had a coronary bypass fifteen years ago, and a cardiac stent implanted in 1998.
He was eighty years old, a survivor of World War Two, the civil war in China, the Cultural Revolution, and a triple coronary bypass.
For most of us, it was a world without air bags or mandatory seat belts, before the decrease in smoking, before early detection of cancer, before CAT scan, ultrasound, organ transplant, amniocentesis, and coronary bypass surgery, before 911 systems showed police and paramedics your address.