Term: coronary bypass: 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
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: seek: the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: balinese: the Indonesian language of the people of Bali
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: brother: used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: mallee fowl: Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: root beer: carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: pycnodysostosis: a form of dwarfism accompanied by fragile bones and bad teeth
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: set: (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: soap: a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
Broader: open-heart surgery: 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 | Unrelated: simple phobia: any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli