heart surgery
36
3.1
- noun
- /hɑrt ˈsɜrdʒəri/
- Specialized
:
cirugía cardíaca
- I'm having heart surgery next week.
- open heart surgery
- heart surgery patients
And Summer's husband, Well, he's the head nurse of the heart surgery department, right?
- And Summer's husband, Well, he's the head nurse of the heart surgery department, right?
- I mean, if you need heart surgery, that's a very definable objective thing.
- Should a car mechanic try and do an open heart surgery?
- Think of trying to do the dishes or performing open heart surgery.
- You know, I've had pneumonia three times, I've had malaria, I've had open heart surgery, I've had cats.
- But if you are the patient getting counseled by your doctor and they say, you know what, I think we're going to have to do open heart surgery.
- Like, so you tell me we're just about to go on live here and you're like, oh, by the way, his dad's by the way, had double open heart surgery recently.
- It's it's like saying to someone, hey, I want to do heart surgery on you.
Examples
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He was scheduled for open-heart surgery.
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The last thing I ever expected was to be a candidate for open-heart surgery.
Fiction book (2002) -
William had heart surgery just seven days ago.
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Open heart surgery is common practice.
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"If you go in for heart surgery, you want a surgeon who has done it a few times before."
Academic text (2009) -
Would you mind just describing the heart surgery and what the recovery has looked like for yourself?
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The leader of Newfoundland went to the US to have heart surgery because he could afford it.
Blog text (6) -
Six months after my mom had open-heart surgery, she and I walked a 5k.
Blog text (5) -
The result is that for the first time, heart surgery patients will receive the benefits of true minimally invasive surgery.
Academic text (1998) -
My grandmother successfully recovered after her heart surgery last month.
Synonyms
945
2.7
An operation in which a doctor cuts into the body to treat or repair it
273
3.7
A surgery where a doctor cuts the body to fix a problem
16
4.4
An operation where doctors open the chest to operate on the heart
3
4.4
Surgery that uses a blood vessel to carry blood past a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
1
4.6
A surgery that uses a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked heart artery and restore blood flow
1
4.2
An operation using a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked artery in the heart and restore blood flow
Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest
A doctor cuts a narrowed heart valve to improve blood flow
A cut a surgeon makes to open a narrowed heart valve so blood flows better
An operation that opens a narrowed heart valve by cutting its joined edges
A surgery to remove part or all of the thin sac around the heart
How Invasive
- Specialized
16
4.4
- Specialized
36
3.1
- Specialized
11
5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a surgical procedure performed on the heart' is directly and compositionally derived from 'heart' (the organ) + 'surgery' (a medical operation). This noun–noun compound follows a transparent semantic relation (surgery of/on the heart) that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Heart surgery is a very literal phrase that names an operation where doctors work on the heart to fix problems with how it pumps blood, so it means 'a surgical procedure performed on the heart'.