Sinonim heart surgery

English Thesaurus

1. any surgical procedure involving the heart (noun.act)

hypernym	:	operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process,
definition	:	a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body (noun.act)

hyponym	:	closed-heart surgery,
definition	:	heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) (noun.act)

hyponym	:	open-heart surgery,
definition	:	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 (noun.act)