coronary bypass surgery

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   open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart

   Synonymscoronary bypasscoronary artery bypass graftCABG

   Broaderopen-heart surgery

Questions about coronary bypass surgery

What does coronary bypass surgery mean?

coronary bypass surgery means "open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart".

What is another word for coronary bypass surgery?

Close synonyms include coronary bypass, coronary artery bypass graft, CABG. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coronary bypass surgery a common word?

coronary bypass 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.