heart-lung machine

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   a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery; diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body

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Questions about heart-lung machine

What does heart-lung machine mean?

heart-lung machine means "a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery; diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body".

Is heart-lung machine a common word?

heart-lung machine 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.