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Wiktionary
- medicine Initialism of coronary artery bypass grafting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Examples
“GUPTA (voice-over): Get bypass surgery each year, also called CABG, or coronary artery bypass grafting, the symptoms really seem to come out of nowhere.”
“Again, it's called CABG, which stands for coronary artery bypass grafting.”
“And that's what, that's what it's call a CABG, which stands for coronary artery bypass grafting.”
“The operation, known as CABG coronary artery bypass grafting, was first pioneered in the 1960s, and it has certainly come a very long way since then.”
“The procedure, called CABG (pronounced "cabbage"), is performed to help restore blood flow in patients with blocked arteries.”
Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal
“Coronary-artery bypass grafts, commonly called CABG (pronounced cabbage), were the first treatment for blocked arteries.”
“The report adds more weight to the increasing evidence that the recession, coupled with the unique American health insurance system, has had a significant impact on Americans 'ability to access care. documented; [opens pdf] timely use of primary care tends to reduce the need for interventional procedures such as CABG, thereby reducing cost and improving long term quality of life.”
“VICTORIA was established by Novadaq to collect clinical and image data for the purposes of comparing the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft ( "CABG") surgery with SPY imaging to the STS National Cardiac Database ( "STS Database"), a well established cardiac surgery outcomes benchmark.”
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“We want to smoke as much as we want, eat as much or as poorly as we like, and have our cardiac cath and CABG covered, no questions asked.”
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