heart surgery

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   any surgical procedure involving the heart

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Questions about heart surgery

What does heart surgery mean?

heart surgery means "any surgical procedure involving the heart".

Is heart surgery a common word?

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.