coronary artery bypass graft
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrəˌnɛri ˈɑrteri ˈbaɪpæs græft/
- Specialized
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injerto de bypass de arteria coronaria
- After carefully evaluating his condition, the cardiologist recommended a coronary artery bypass graft to alleviate the blockage in his arteries.
- coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
- coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- performed a coronary artery bypass graft
Examples
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In June, a surgical team used the system in completing the first "closed chest" videoscopic coronary artery bypass graft.
Academic text (1998) -
During the surgery, the doctor explained that a coronary artery bypass graft would improve blood flow to the heart.
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Many patients who suffer from heart disease may undergo a coronary artery bypass graft to enhance their heart's performance.
Synonyms
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Surgery that uses a blood vessel to carry blood past a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
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An operation that uses a blood vessel to go around a blocked heart artery and improve blood flow
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An operation using a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked artery in the heart and restore blood flow
Surface Forms
Morphology
coronary + artery + bypass + graft
The overall meaning is directly built from its parts: 'coronary artery' (artery supplying the heart) plus 'bypass' (a route around a blockage) and 'graft' (a transplanted piece of tissue), so a learner who knows those words can infer it is a surgical rerouting of blood around a blocked heart artery using a graft. Although technical, the noun-composition follows transparent, compositional patterns common across languages, so the sense is derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Coronary artery bypass graft comes from a simple image: when a blocked artery near the coronary, the heart, stops blood flow, surgeons bypass the block by adding a graft, a short piece of blood vessel, to make a new path for blood. So it means 'an operation to restore blood flow to the heart'.