CABG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CABG mean? 

• CABG (noun)
  The noun CABG has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CABG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CABG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

CABG; coronary artery bypass graft; coronary bypass; coronary bypass surgery

Hypernyms ("CABG" is a kind of...):

open-heart surgery (heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired)

 Context examples 

During CABG, a healthy artery or vein from the body is connected, or grafted, to a blocked coronary (heart) artery.

(Heart Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Also called: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, CABG, Bypass surgery, Coronary artery bypass graft

(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The diagnostic criteria may include documented history of any of the following: documented coronary artery stenosis greater than or equal to 50% (by cardiac catheterization or other modality of direct imaging of the coronary arteries); previous coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG); previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); previous myocardial infarction.

(Coronary Artery Disease, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The most common type of heart surgery for adults is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

(Heart Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)