closed-heart surgery

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	heart surgery,
definition	:	any surgical procedure involving the heart (noun.act)

hyponym	:	port-access coronary bypass surgery,
definition	:	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 (noun.act)

hyponym	:	minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery,
definition	:	heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions (noun.act)