coronary bypass surgery
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrəˌnɛri ˈbaɪpæs ˈsɜrdʒəri/
- Specialized
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cirugía de bypass coronario
- Following a heart attack, he underwent coronary bypass surgery to restore blood flow.
Examples
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The answer seems obvious: "Few, if any, people would frivolously choose to endure coronary bypass surgery just because the price had dropped to zero" (Nyman, 2004, p. 197).
Academic text (2006) -
Surgical interventions, such as coronary bypass surgery, are keeping more seriously ill individuals alive.
Academic text (1994) -
For example, a hospital receives the same payment for DRG 107, coronary bypass surgery, regardless of its use of resources for that particular case.
Academic text (1994) -
For example, critical pathways for coronary bypass surgery are driven by nurses and lead to only passive physician cost containment.
Academic text (1994) -
Drawing on more than 8,500 consecutive patients from all nine cardiac surgery centres in Ontario between 1991 and 1993, we have developed a multicentre, population-based profile of how queuing for coronary bypass surgery actually functions in a universal health care system.
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The doctor explained that coronary bypass surgery could help alleviate his chest pain.
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After months of suffering from severe heart issues, she decided to have coronary bypass surgery as advised by her cardiologist.
Synonyms
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Surgically made passage that sends blood around a blocked artery
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An operation on the heart to fix a disease or problem
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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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A surgery that uses a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
An operation on the heart using small cuts and cameras to bypass blocked arteries while a machine keeps blood moving
An operation using small tools and a camera to bypass blocked blood vessels while the heart beats
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'coronary' (a heart artery) + 'bypass' (a passage around a blockage) + 'surgery' (a medical operation), so the meaning 'a surgical operation creating a bypass for a blocked coronary artery' is directly derivable from the parts. Although medical terminology is somewhat technical, the noun‑noun composition follows normal compounding patterns and is cross‑linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should grasp the overall meaning.
Etymology
Coronary bypass surgery comes from a simple image: when a heart's blood vessel (the coronary) is blocked, doctors make a new path or 'bypass' using a healthy vessel so blood can flow past the blockage. So, coronary bypass surgery means 'an operation to restore blood flow to the heart'.