port-access coronary bypass surgery

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   heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine

   Broaderclosed-heart surgery

Questions about port-access coronary bypass surgery

What does port-access coronary bypass surgery mean?

port-access coronary bypass surgery means "heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine".

Is port-access coronary bypass surgery a common word?

port-access 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.