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heart surgery

n. any surgical procedure involving the heart

Usage examples of "heart surgery".

From your perspective, any symptom less than what would call for immediate open-heart surgery is a kind of malingering.

There's so much to be done with the legal aspects, Blair is still in school, Randall's granddaughter has to have open-heart surgery-we need you.

Here was a seventy-year-old man who less than forty-eight hours previously had been gravely ill and had had open-heart surgery.

In a heart surgery emergency there is no time to fumble for a key.

It contains a number of preparations that would not be found in the general dispensary downstairs, the powerful sedatives and exotic sedative-hypnotics that make possible open-heart surgery and brain surgery on an aware and responsive patient.

My superiors are very upset about the negative ruling on the CON for open-heart surgery.

Porges underwent quadruple bypass heart surgery last year, but seems to be recovering just fine--he published a story recently in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and has another one due out soon in Cricket magazine.

I had heart surgery last year, and this whole police thing has got me real upset.