Term: closed-heart surgery: heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: picovolt: a unit of potential equal to one trillionth of a volt
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: formulation: the style of expressing yourself
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: rank-order correlation coefficient: the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: bacteria species: a species of bacteria
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: lateral geniculate body: a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: gas system: facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: sustaining program: a program without a commercial sponsor
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: chandler: a retail dealer in provisions and supplies
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: stemmer: an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
Broader: heart surgery: any surgical procedure involving the heart | Unrelated: harp: a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers