bypass
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6.0
- noun
- /ˈbaɪpæs/
- Specialized
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bypass coronario
- I had my own heart attack in 1994, followed by triple bypass surgery in 1995.
- bypass surgery
- coronary bypass
- coronary artery bypass (CABG)
We're dealing with very, very costly diseases, cancers, cardiac bypass, renal dialysis.
- We're dealing with very, very costly diseases, cancers, cardiac bypass, renal dialysis.
- So she's lying there with her chest open on bypass and I can see her heart flopping around like that.
- But I asked him, I said, what are you doing, Kim, to like, motivate your patients after they've had a stent or a bypass or a procedure?
- So I have a fem pop bypass in my left leg and then the right leg and everything else they waited for like later to address.
- I said he's fucking just had a triple R bypass.
- And to cut a Long story short, if you know a basic bypass heart surgery in Boston costs anywhere between.
Examples
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Mr Mayor, do you think your recent triple heart bypass will affect your campaign strategy?
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A coronary bypass Is a dangerous operation, but he's confident he'll be fine.
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I had emergency bypass surgery last year.
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You have a heart bypass scheduled?
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I was born around the same time you had your first heart bypass.
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My dad had his heart bypass at 49, the second at the age 50.
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What is this, your second triple bypass?
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Surgical interventions, such as coronary bypass surgery, are keeping more seriously ill individuals alive.
Academic text (1994) -
In fact, physicians in Cleveland performed a heart bypass on a patient in Milan, Italy (Potok 1999).
Academic text (2003) -
After her diagnosis, she underwent a bypass procedure to redirect blood flow around her blocked artery.
Synonyms
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2.5
A way for people or things to move through
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9.9
A connection between two tubes in the body, like blood vessels or intestine, that lets liquid flow between them
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4.4
Surgery that uses a blood vessel to carry blood past a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
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4.6
A surgery that uses a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
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4.2
An operation using a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked artery in the heart and restore blood flow
A tube surgeons use to carry blood around a blocked or damaged vessel
Antonyms
Compounds
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4.4
Surgery that uses a blood vessel to carry blood past a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
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4.6
A surgery that uses a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
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4.2
An operation using a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked artery in the heart and restore blood flow
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A small electronic part that sends fast electrical noise to the ground to keep voltage steady
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A small electrical part placed across power lines that lets high frequency noise flow to ground
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An operation using small tools and a camera to bypass blocked blood vessels while the heart beats
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A surgery that makes food pass around part of the small intestine to cause weight loss
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An operation on the heart using small cuts and cameras to bypass blocked arteries while a machine keeps blood moving
How Invasive
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3.4
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75
6.0
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7.8
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4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bypass is made of by 'to the side' and pass 'to go past', so it means a path that goes around something. In medicine a bypass is a new path for blood that lets it flow 'around' a blocked part.