closed-heart surgery

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   heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)

   Broaderheart surgery

   Narrowerport-access coronary bypass surgeryminimally invasive coronary bypass surgery

Questions about closed-heart surgery

What does closed-heart surgery mean?

closed-heart surgery means "heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)".

Is closed-heart surgery a common word?

closed-heart surgery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.