closed-heart surgery
- noun
- /kloʊzd hɑrt ˈsɜrʤəri/
- Specialized
:
cirugía cardíaca cerrada
- Many patients prefer closed-heart surgeries due to their less invasive nature.
Examples
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Unlike closed-heart surgery, open-heart procedures involve a longer hospital stay.
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Advances in closed-heart surgery have reduced recovery times for many patients.
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The patient required closed-heart surgery due to the complexity of the condition.
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The doctor performed a closed-heart surgery successfully.
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Recent innovations in closed-heart surgery have significantly improved patient outcomes.
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He underwent closed-heart surgery to repair a defect without the need for a large incision.
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Many surgeons recommend closed-heart surgery because it typically leads to faster recovery.
Antonyms
- Specialized
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4.4
An operation where doctors open the chest to operate on the heart
Surface Forms
Morphology
closed-heart + surgery
Although 'closed-heart' as a single dictionary item is absent, the meaning is transparently built from 'closed' (not open) + 'heart' + 'surgery' and thus denotes a heart operation performed without opening the chest. The compositional logic mirrors the common contrast with 'open-heart surgery' and is cross-linguistically obvious, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The noun closed-heart surgery comes from the picture of surgeons working on the heart through a small cut while the chest stays closed. That's why it means a heart operation done without opening the chest, unlike 'open-heart' surgery.